I Was In A Crazy,

I Love Storms And How The Whole House Shakes. When I Was A Kid, There Would Be Lots Of Thunder And Lightning Storms, And They Would Knock The Electricity Out. We Had This Oil Lantern That Had Been In My Grandfather's Homestead At The Turn Of The Century, Before There Even Was Electricity. He'd Bring It Down Off The Top Shelf, And We'd Always Play Cards.

If You Keep Bashing Your Head Against The Same Wall, At Some Point You're Going To Fall Over And Be Still For Awhile.

If You Calculate Every Single Thing You Could Possibly Need In Your Life, You Would Need No More Than 200 People To Keep All That Afloat: A Doctor, Food, Wine, Cheese-eating Friends, The Person Who Makes Paper, The Shoemaker.

You Hit A Guitar, You Hit A Note, You Hit A Drum, You Hit An Organ. Meat And Potatoes. Simplicity. Not Getting Too Caught Up In Little Tweezers Of Perfection.

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.