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You're Letting Such A Fragile Side Of Yourself Out When You're Creating Or Writing Music. To Do That With People Who Are Almost Strangers Would Seem Very Strange To Me. I Think That We're Very Lucky That We're Quite Close. To Us, It's Almost Like The Band Is The Grandest Possible Adventure You Can Go On With Your Friends. It's Really Really Exciting.

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I Want To Change And Try New Ideas - Allowing Your Sonic Identity To Evolve In Your Music And Not Being Afraid Of That. You See Musicians Hit Upon Something That Works, And Then Go, "let's Keep Doing That For 10 Years." And That Idea Kind Of Terrifies Me A Little Bit. It Becomes Like A Day Job Then.

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