"I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion."
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"When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it."
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"You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you."
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"Though I know for a fact that some of my fans would be happy for me to do anything that's going to help me be successful, namely to go to a major label, and I thank them for that, there'd be a lot of people who I think wouldn't be so happy with that change, and when I DO get dropped, then where would I be?"
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"I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy."
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"I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song."
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"I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe."
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"The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton, and it's not like I had an easy time through those years. But I just thought it was particularly rough. I have to say the World Trade Center attack was very weird for me. The events that followed were worse. It was a really long swath of time."
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"Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life."
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"I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement."
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"I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball."
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"When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always read authors do, and park myself at a desk and bang things out for three hours. And if I have to throw it all away, I throw it all away."
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"Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth...I mean, sometimes it's not worth it."
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"I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have."
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"Some people never need to let up at all."
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"I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it."
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"Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that."
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