It's Exploding Bags, Aerosol Cans

I've Never Conceptualized Much Of What I Write About. Maybe, Once I'm Onto Something, I'll Conceptualize A Finished Record. I Want The Songs To Tie Together And Make Sense Together. I'm Not Like, "oh, I Want To Explore This Idea." That's Just Not How The Creative Process Works For Me. It's More Like Something Strikes Me, Or Finds Me, And Then I Wrestle With It After That. I Don't Sit Back In My Armchair, Like, "what Kind Of Philosophy Can I Explore Today?"

To Outsiders It Probably Seems Like Splitting Hairs, But To Me, Bright Eyes Is A Simply The Collaboration Between Myself And Mike Mogis And Nate Walcott. What You Hear Is Definitely The Sum Of All Our Ideas And Represents All Three Of Us. But I Still Write The Songs Myself.

For A Song I Was Bought Now I Lie When I Talk With A Careful Eye On The Cue Card. Onto A Stage I Was Pushed, With My Sorrow Well Rehearsed. So Give Me All Your Pity And Your Money, Now (all Of It).

In A Way, To Have Whatever People Talk About As "crossover Success," I Think It Means You Start Making Bad Music. I Mean, When I'm Flipping Through The Channels And See The Vmas Or Something, I Don't Really See Any Music There.

Now I Believe That Lovers Should Be Draped In Flowers And Laid Entwined Together On A Bed Of Clover And Left There To Sleep, Left There To Dream Of Their Happiness.