There are good places to play and bad places.

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The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

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Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the guitar and work ou…

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It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in…

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I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

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We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

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There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

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I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much…

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It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

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