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I used to be so young, how did I get so old?
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Used
Used To Be
Young
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I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.
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Hypothetical
Past
Thinking
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I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.
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Men
Believe
Self
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In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.
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War
Hopeful
Winning
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If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.
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Art
Ifs
Subtle
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I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.
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Different
Song
Way
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When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.
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Iphone
Three
Years
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I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.
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People
Song
Thinking
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I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.
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Kids
Book
Novel
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We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.
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Death
Dream
Past
Repeats
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Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.
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Nice
Real
Regret
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The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.
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Fantasy
Halos
Ideas
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The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.
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Ideas
Relative
Stupid
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Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.
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Muse
Sometimes
Waiting
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If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
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Noses
Strong
Talking
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Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.
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Break
Enjoy Life
Lucky
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I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.
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Art
People
Thinking
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I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.
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Cities
Country
Thinking
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There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.
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Embrace
Okay
Teach
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I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.
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Order
Talking
Voice
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I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.
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Book
Reading
Thinking
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I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second and live in the shoes of a character, which is a special thing.
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Book
Character
Thinking
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You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.
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Acting
Weight
World
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More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.
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Appreciative
Brilliant
Incredibles
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You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.
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Looks
Sides
Want
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I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.
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Moments
Reality
Thinking
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And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself "no no, it's gonna be fine. There's gonna be more songs, it's all good.
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Dry
Sometimes
Song
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I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
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Kids
House
Phones
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To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.
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Self
Sides
Stories
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It's the sick and twisted male fantasy that we want classy ladies out in the world that make us look good, but in the bedroom, men want subservient women who please all of their whims. It's the typical bullshit of male ego.
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Men
Bullshit
Sick
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Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.
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Cheer
Ideas
People
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If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both of us are connected, and when you feel connected to people, you feel understood. You feel a sense of purpose.
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People
Purpose
Writing
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I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.
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Past
Perspective
Reality
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I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time.
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Kids
Feelings
Waiting
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There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that eventually becomes a song. There's a slow permeation of the idea and then that leads into a bunch of themes and becomes a bunch of lines.
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Circles
Ideas
Song
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It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.
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Challenges
Giving
Ongoing
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I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.
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Missing
People
Style
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I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.
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Important
Mean
Song
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With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.
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People
Playing Music
Suffering
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If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.
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Important
People
Use
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What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have had a ton of fun playing it. The problem was that it was a "given".It was like everyone was waiting for it to happen, and then it better be as crazy as the time they saw it before. Started to feel like dancing monkeys.
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Crazy
Fun
Song
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I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.
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Art
Book
Couple
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I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.
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Kids
Technology
Growing Up
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When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.
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Kids
Home
Night
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It doesn't matter if you're talking to a communist or a fascist if you say, do you want a good future for your kids? Well they're all going to say yes. Well do you think that money should be spent efficiently? Yes. Al of these things, everyone agrees on them but the way that we discuss them and the language that we use we hold different definitions for.
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Kids
Talking
Thinking
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We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing.
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Greed
Issues
Old Things
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The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.
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Artist
Lucky
Weight
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That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.
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Alive
Book
Goal
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When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.
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Daughter
Father
Mean
Mother
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