A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.
That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people.
I'm thinking about where we are right now in history. The other common theme to this record is that the songs all put stuff I find important out on the table. Less metaphor and more me.
I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,