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.
BRETT DENNENEvery 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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I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
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When you get to say something in a song you’re not directing it necessarily at one person. When it’s in a song it’s easier to get it out. I don’t really worry so much about it when I’m writing a song.
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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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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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A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it’s moody, and storm is coming, there’s an energy in the air.
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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
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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.
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I sing the best when I’m really in my voice. It’s kind of like I’m meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.
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Nature inspires me because it’s so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
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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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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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I think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.
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I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I’m in nature.
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I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain – that is the most inspiring thing.
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It’s usually kids that normally don’t have a chance to get to meet each other because they’re separated by millions of different things.
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As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people.
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I’m an avid juicer and a healthy eater.
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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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I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that’s happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I’m saying.
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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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I used to want to be fully observational, but I’m just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
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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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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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