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For Any Producer I've Ever Worked With, Their Toughest Job Is To Convince Me To Not To Obscure My Vocals. A Lot Of People Don't Like The Sound Of Their Own Voice On, Like, Cassette Tape Or Something. It's Like That For Me, And Other Songwriters I Know. Like, "oh God, That's What I Sound Like?"

To Conceive Music, To Execute It In Front Of Others, To Make It So Others Can Do It...it Can Be Pretty Humbling, And Kind Of Scary. So Yeah, I Don't Really Feel In Competition With Anybody. Not Because I Feel Elitist, But Because I Have Enough Self-competition. I'm Always Struggling.

I Got On The Phone With The President Of My Label And I Said, "obviously, I Write Songs In A Lot Of Styles And Play A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Music. We're Getting Toward The End Of Our Business Collaboration. If You Could Envision A Record That You Wanted To Hear From Me, What Kind Of Record Would It Be?" It Wasn't Like Asking Him To Fill An Order, It Was Really Just A Conversation. For All The Things I'd Ever Asked Him, This Was One Thing I'd Never Asked, And I Don't Know Why. So I Was Curious. And The Thing That He Was Most Interested In Hearing Was A Solo Record.

Being A Human Being Is Lost. For 120 Shows, The One That Goes Bad Is The One That People Will Talk About.

The Night Destroys The Sun