Be Yourself Is All That

To Me, Music Shouldn't Be Ego-driven. When You Go Out On Stage And Play Songs, It Is. But When You're Sitting In A Room, Writing Songs, It's A Completely Different Process. It's A Completely Different Place. It's A Creative Place, A Musical Place. It Has Nothing To Do With Who Likes What.

Ever Since I Can Remember I’ve Had Positive And Negative Fan Reviews. And Whether It Was Positive Or Negative It Wasn’t Always Based In Reality Or What My Perception Of The Music Was. But Judging From Playing These New Songs Live And My Feelings On The Record [scream] – And It’s A Great Record – There Is Definitely An Audience For It. Also, I Don’t Really Go To Clubs So I Don’t Know What Sounds Are Made There.

I'm Pretty Critical, But I'm Also Pretty Good At Letting Go Once It's Done. There's This Existential Argument That Comes In, At Some Point, When You're Over-thinking The Songwriting Process. There's No Guarantee That The More Time You Spend Or The More You Concentrate On Certain Aspects That That's Going To Produce A Better Result, Especially In The Arts. Some Of The Most Brilliant Things That Someone Might Do Could Happen In Three Minutes Because It's Something That Just Occurs To Them.

In The United States, Workouts Tend To Focus On Body Image And How You Look. For Me, It's Really All About The Brain.

Maybe Sincerity Is The New Punk. But To Me, I Think I Have To Connect With Something Emotionally, On Some Level, Or I Don't Care About It. And If I Don't Care About It, Then I Don't Think Anyone Listening To It Will, Either.