There is enough pure escapism available in our culture, I’m not inspired by it, nor do I see any merit in making more of it. What Hopper was trying to explain one hundred years ago is even more true now: the encroachment of modernism on the world is only increasing loneliness in the world.
Read MoreMany songwriters talk about inspiration as if it is this mystical thing and we’re just conduits from some other sphere for the song. I think that’s a bit new age for me, but while I don’t think it’s mystical, it is a bit mysterious.
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