With Rock Band, You Can Play Along

I've Mostly Been Focusing On Writing, And I've Really Enjoyed Not Playing Music. It Will Always Be Part Of My Life, But I Don't Feel The Immediate Need To Be Playing For People.

"we Can't Name It, But We Can Sing Along." That Is My Ultimate Relationship To Any Art Form, But Especially Music.

It's Very Common To Think That We're Always Evolving, That We've Changed So Much From Our Younger Selves, That Within Decades We've Transformed Into These Different People. We Like To Think That. I Feel In Some Ways That I Am Still So Much My Younger Self. There Are Ways That I'm Different: I Feel Like I'm Wiser And Kinder. But I Think A Lot Of The Impulses Are Still The Same. I Learned That.

I Think One Of The Reasons That We Are Able To Actually Keep Making Music That We Want To Make, And That We're Inspired By, Is Because There Is A Certain Amount Of Instability Constantly, And I Think That Mirrors The Instability Of Any Given Life.

There Was This Kind Of Wackiness That Was Really Embraced And Put On A Pedestal. It Was Before The Millennium. We Were Envisioning A Future That Was Mostly Idealistic. I Think That Came Crashing Down A Little Bit In 9/11, Or A Lot. There Is Something About Portland That Does Seem To Still Exist In This Total Idealistic World And Total Idealistic Mind Frame, And I Think That's What Dream Of The '90s Is Talking About.