The rule is not written anywhere, it’s not etched in any – but, I mean, that’s the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don’t have an adventure.
The ones that catch your eye are the ones that are basically people who live on the road and follow us around. They’re a small percentage of the audience, but they’re quite visible. The ones who aren’t visible are the stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, housewives.
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time–just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I’ve learned to do that again.
What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can’t tell you child, ‘this too shall pass.’ If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there’s nothing left to say.
