Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

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We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

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I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

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With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

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You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

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Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

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I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

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