If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.
Will OldhamWriting songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
Will OldhamI don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
Will OldhamYou're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.
Will Oldham