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The main crux of that being that I noticed in my creative life and in my normal life that sabbath was so hard for me-- to slow down and stop. And so when you’re looking at how the Lord creates—pausing, letting things be still is such a huge part of how our world works and nature works and really how we’re designed to work…and so I wrote that song to end-- to sort of say this is where I want to be…what I want to create out of—I want to create out of rest, instead of out of crazy workaholism… (18:53)
there’s a through-line I feel, that is this idea to stop the working and stop the anxious overthinking…and just sit with the Lord, is like where the growth happens.
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Because one, I felt like I was forced to rest in it more than I wanted to. Like the healthy rhythms of other people sort of pushed me into taking weekends off and actually making like a workday…whereas in the past, I hadn’t given myself healthy rest parameters while working… (21:59)
So we cut it as a band without any click, just all at once, me playing and singing at the same time, which was wild because I’ve never done that in recording, and I think that song ended up being my favorite song on the whole album, just cause It feels super free in the way that it’s not…All that could have done wrong I think ended up working positively because its truly one of 5 passes that we did, and it’s just singing the song, playing it and feeling it as you go.
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And then honestly more than ever this album has what I feel like are songs that feel like…I guess like human to human…like, more empathetic songs
think the guiding principles of the songs on this record that are horizontal I would say is empathy and thinking like this is a shared experience, a common struggle, not me telling you to join me out of the thing, but we’re just in the thing together. 28:16
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I’m thinking about what I would have wanted to hear…and then just hoping that person is out there
Better is a song about feeling just like on another planet from where you think you’re supposed to be and where you think God is…That one almost probably more than any of the songs is the- I kind of describe some songs as just ugly prayers, and that one was pretty prickly.
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I think my hope for myself, is just like with the album, which I think is like—I think any album, as I’m learning should be, is a snapshot of where you were, when you were there…
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Pretty much picked up guitar cause I wanted to impress a girl, I think. Classic. And then sort of swiftly liked the guitar more than the girl.
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I’m a really big fan of Jeff Tweedy from Wilco, and he said in an interview once that every time he makes an album he tries to make one that he doesn’t have yet…so something he hasn’t heard and something he hasn’t made,
And I think whatever I can do to keep doing that, just to keep being interested in what I do and hopefully not just sort of settle in to the one thing that I’m okay at—I would like to challenge myself to keep doing that. (1:26:25)
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