A Year's A Long Time,

Songwriting Is A Really Fortunate Skill To Have To Frame Living And To Find New Ways To Observe Things You're Going Through.

Gatekeeper Was Sort Of My First Attempt To Put A Little Bit Of A Frame And Boundaries Around Songwriting, And Try To Figure Out A Way To Approach It That Had A Sort Of End Result In Mind. I Havent Written Many Like That.

I'm In The Countryside Outside Of Paris, In A Beautiful Old Manor House. The Studio Is In The Basement, But We Decided To Set Everything Up In The Old Parlor And Dining-room Area So We Can Look At Each Other And (at) The Sunshine Coming Through The Stained-glass Windows. It's Pretty Idyllic, And I Think It's Spoiling Me. I'll Have To Go Back To Regular Life After This.

When I Stopped Touring, It Was Like Trying To Stop A Bullet Train Or A Giant Lead Ball Falling From A 100 Stories Up - It's Momentum And It Doesn't Just Stop. I Drew A Line In The Calendar And Made It A Brick Wall And Just Stopped Dead. There Was No Other Way. It Would've Taken Another 100 Years To Slow Down Slowly. I Had To Let Myself Imagine A Calendar With No Lines; When Every Single Day Is Being Predetermined Six Months In Advance, There's No More Fluidity To Time.

I Haven't Been Living Anywhere Because I've Been On Tour For The Past Two Years.