I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.

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.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

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 force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.