There's A Pervasive Feeling That

I Didn't Have Any Agenda Or Plan When I Started Writing Stuff.

I Love Writing. I Don't Claim To Be Great At It. Occasionally I Get A Good Sentence Off. But I Love The Activity.

I Think It's Really Hard To Make Songs That Pursue An Agenda. You Can Kind Of Do It A Little Bit Through A Character, So The Character Gives Voice To Something Or Their Story, The Story Of The Character Tells You Something, But, For Me Anyway, It's Really Hard To Write Directly About Politics.

With A Lot Of What We Take To Be True Feelings, Especially On Pop Records, We Feel Them Because They're Cleverly Crafted. And Because The Words Are Written By Somebody Who Knows How To Craft Words And Draw On Those Things And Convey Those Feelings. That Doesn't Mean They're Dishonest. But It Also Doesn't Mean That It's All Just Pure Primitive Emotion Spilling Out.

Living "in" A Story, Being Part Of A Narrative, Is Much More Satisfying Than Living Without One. I Don't Always Know What Narrative It Is, Because I'm Living My Life And Not Always Reflecting On It, But As I Edit These Pages I Am Aware That I Have An Urge To See My Sometimes Random Wandering As Having A Plot, A Purpose Guided By Some Underlying Story.