I Think Everybody Works From A Defensive

Then Little Writings And Recordings That Thankfully Continue To Come Up. I'm In This Kind Of Wonderful, Kind Of Awkward, Off-putting, And Strange Position Where There's Nothing I Want To Do More Than Continue To Make Music, But The Ways That I Do Things Are Not In Tune With How I Can Do Them Commercially.

We Always Keep Things Very, Very Simple. We Can Make A Respectable Living Playing A Smaller Room That Somebody Else Couldn't, Because They're Spending A Lot Of Money. If We Can't Get A Show Up And Deliver With What We Almost Intrinsically Have In Our Brains And Our Pockets, Then I Don't Really Want To Do It.

Writing Songs Is A Profession; So It's Not An Attempt To Take Things From My Interactions With Other People And For Some Reason Give Them To A Total Stranger To Listen To. I Find It Offensive To Hear Other People Do That.

You're Hoping That It's Going To Be An Extraordinary Experience Any Time You Create And/or Listen To Music With Other People. I Guess What I've Been Saying Over The Past Few Minutes Is That It's Hard To Do That, To Create That.

I Want To Be Successful And I Want People To Hear The Music And I Want To Make Money At It, But If It Isn't What You Do, Eventually It Seems Like That Will Cause You To Not Be Able To Do What You Do. If You Did That For A Couple Years, You Would Just Become Someone Else, Which Is Fine, I Guess...but I Don't Want To Become Someone Else. I Want To Do What I Enjoy And What Feels Right.