"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."

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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."

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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

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"Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change."

John Patrick Hickey, American Author

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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."

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"Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts."

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"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."

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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."

Attention

"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

Talk

"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

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"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."

Dream

"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."

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"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."

End

"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

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"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."

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"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."

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"Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs."

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