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Music Becomes Very Personal. When You Marry A Message You Want To Send Out Into The World With Good Music, All Of A Sudden You Have A Very Potent Way Of Delivering Your Message.

I Drug Your Ghost Across The Country, And We Plotted Out My Death. Every City And Memory We Whispered "here Is Where You Rest." Well I Was Determined In Chicago But I Dug My Teeth Into My Knees And I Settled For A Telephone, Sang Into Your Machine: "you Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine.

Although Omaha Is My Birthplace And The Place I Grew Up, I Don't See Myself Spending Extended Amounts Of Time There. I Feel Almost More Comfortable And More At Peace In New York.

On Every Bright Eyes Record, There's Some Kind Of Sound Collage That Begins It. Some Of Them Have Dialogue, Some Don't. I Like It Because It Can Kind Of Slow Down The Attention Span A Bit. It's A Way To Draw You In To The Rest Of The Record.

I Think There's A Weird Self-affirmation Thing That Happens In Popular Music In General. It Seems Like Every Song I Hear On The Radio Is Like, "listen To Me Roar!" Or "this Is My Fight Song!"