I Don't Care What's Happening In The

I Still Write More Songs About Girls Than Anything Else.

When You're Really Bummed Out, The Last Thing You Want To Hear Is Up-tempo And Positive. And It Lets You Know That You're Not Alone, That Somebody Has Hurt Before. It Works The Same Way With Chick Songs As It Does With Political Songs. When You Hear Somebody Singing About These Things, You Know That You're Not Alone, That Somebody Else Is Suspicious Of What's Going On Around Us In The World. So You Don't Feel Like You're Crazy, And You Feel Like You Might Be Able To Make A Difference.

By The Time I Wrote Those First Three Songs For His New Cd ... I Wanted To Push The Poetics As Hard As I Could Push Them, And Not Decide The Songs Were Finished Until I Committed Them To Whatever The Recording Format Was. I Went Through Drafts Right Up Until I Recorded Every Single One Of Them.

Greg Trooper Writes Great Songs, Including One Of My Very Favorite Songs In The World, Little Sister. On Top Of All That, There's His Voice - An Instrument I Have Coveted For 15 Years.

At Home, I'm Lucky If I Can Write Three Or Four Hours Before The Phone Starts Ringing And The Kids Want To Go To Soccer.