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The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound... →
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie... →
I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess.... →
So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and... →
The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical... →
My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't... →
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.