You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

If I loved you, well that's my fault

All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band. I mean, really, in many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio, we build the songs that way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band was the exact opposite, where everybody knows what they are gonna be playing on the song and there's sort of a general stylistic approach, and then it's just plug in and play.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.