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People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

Brett Dennen

I can’t really write unless I’m full of inspiration. And even then I can’t write unless I have some alone time.
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Alone Inspiration Time Writing
I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn’t really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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Anything Guitar Mountains Old Professional
Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it’s your job to chip away and find out what’s in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.
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Jobs Song Swimming
I think there’s a certain magic that comes from being creative.
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Creative Magic Thinking
I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
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Couple Meditation Thinking
I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.
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Fifty Matter Thinking
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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High Song Standards Writing
Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don’t try to dwell on that too much though.
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Artist Everyone Feel Good Trying War
Things aren’t always as they appear. I’ve been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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Believe Couple Illusion Want Way
The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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Moving Ocean Water
The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they’re very thankful.
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Gratitude People Yoga
Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I’m thankful for that. I haven’t lost my head, and I haven’t lost my desire to keep growing.
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Desire Growing Lost
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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Inspire Mountain Strong
I’m a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I’m not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that’s what yoga’s about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.
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Lyrics Moving Pain Working Yoga
I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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Acting Big Thinking
I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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Issues Thinking Two

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

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