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Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.
I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.
I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.
I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.
But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.
When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100 stories up - it's momentum and it doesn't just stop. I drew a line in the calendar and made it a brick wall and just stopped dead. There was no other way. It would've taken another 100 years to slow down slowly. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.
There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. It makes you feel so minute. The only thing as big as that are your thoughts about it, which can expand exponentially while your physical self is just trapped. It's a pretty awesome feeling, in the original sense of the word.
I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.