New ways of seeing can disclose new things But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.
I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.
When I get compared to artists like José González or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, 'I've been doing this since they were in third grade. '
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.
We're all human and life is complicated.
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
A good general chooses his battlefield.
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.