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All Those Experiences Were A Chance To Learn More About Music. Playing With The Valley Band Is Like Such A "live" Band. I Mean, Really, In Many Ways Bright Eyes Is Really A Studio Project. We Form Bands To Tour, But It Really Is - You Know, We Take The Songs And We Figure Out How To Decorate Them And It's All In The Studio, We Build The Songs That Way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band Was The Exact Opposite, Where Everybody Knows What They Are Gonna Be Playing On The Song And There's Sort Of A General Stylistic Approach, And Then It's Just Plug In And Play.

There's A Major Underlying Idea As You Grow Up That You Need To Just Save Your Money And Get That Affordable Housing At The Edge Of Town Where You're Away From The City Where All The Crime Happens Or Whatever.

If There's Ever A Kid Out There That Can't Afford To Buy The Music, I Still Want Them To Hear It, And Hopefully They'll Go To The Show, Or Buy A T-shirt From The Band. That's The Idea.

It's In Vogue To Have A Cause And Give Money In Charity. But To Actually Speak Up And Say Something Like, I'm Pissed About This" - That Doesn't Seem To Be Very Popular Unless You're Writing A Blog Or Tweeting.

And Me I'm In The Bathroom Crying Out My Eyelids Because It's Hard To Be A Man When You're Scared, Just Like A Little Kid.