We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.