The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.