Love's An Excuse To Get

It's Hard To Get People To Focus On One Idea.

I Don't Feel Real Confident Expressing Myself Except When I'm Writing. I Feel Kind Of Scatterbrained. I Can See Everything From Both Sides And That Makes It Hard To Reach Conclusions. Writing Enables Me To Clarify Things.

On Good Days, I Can See The Inherent Goodness In People, And That Human Beings Have A High Capacity To Learn And Adapt. But Things Like The Environment, Nuclear Weapons And Ideas Like Peak Oil - If You Think About Them Too Much, They Can Really Freak You Out.

I've Never Conceptualized Much Of What I Write About. Maybe, Once I'm Onto Something, I'll Conceptualize A Finished Record. I Want The Songs To Tie Together And Make Sense Together. I'm Not Like, "oh, I Want To Explore This Idea." That's Just Not How The Creative Process Works For Me. It's More Like Something Strikes Me, Or Finds Me, And Then I Wrestle With It After That. I Don't Sit Back In My Armchair, Like, "what Kind Of Philosophy Can I Explore Today?"

And I Sing And Sing Of Awful Things The Pleasure That My Sadness Brings.