Songwriting Is A Really Fortunate Skill To

The Group-effort Sound In Recording Of Sea Lion Is Like, You Really Hear All The People In The Room And Hear Them Interlocking. Theres A Real Freight-train Energy Of All These People At The Same Time Playing.

And Of Course, Pop Music Is All About Memorability And Simplicity And Positive Messages And A Little Dash Of Joy.

When You Say Something Or Sing Something Enough Times, It Becomes A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. It's Almost Like Casting Spells. I Don't Mean Necessarily In The Flighty, 'i'm Going To Go Buy A Cloak With A Hood Now' Way.

Because There's Just So Much In A Day Now, I Keep Writing In Much More Abstract Terms, Like I Don't Try To Write About What Happened Anymore. It Would Be Impossible.

I Wrote The Album [metals] In The Fall. In About Four Months, I Went From Zero To Finished. It Usually Takes Forever.