I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.