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I mean the reason that I started writing close to home, "Santa Fe," et cetera, was a kind of looking back on past events. I don't know, it's just some of the dark spaces I've been. And it feels like with a music career and whatnot, I've been able to crawl out of those places. So it's interesting to look back on them and try to hold on to the feeling of what you went through.

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There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.

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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

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I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my li…

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As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements …

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I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, an…

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As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspect…

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Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

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I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you coul…

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I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful…

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