I Know More Than I Knew Before

When I Stopped Touring, It Was Like Trying To Stop A Bullet Train Or A Giant Lead Ball Falling From A 100 Stories Up - It's Momentum And It Doesn't Just Stop. I Drew A Line In The Calendar And Made It A Brick Wall And Just Stopped Dead. There Was No Other Way. It Would've Taken Another 100 Years To Slow Down Slowly. I Had To Let Myself Imagine A Calendar With No Lines; When Every Single Day Is Being Predetermined Six Months In Advance, There's No More Fluidity To Time.

I've Never Been Drawn To Concert Dvds Because They Take Away The Part Of The Equation That's Most Important To Seeing A Live Show: Getting Jostled Around And Feeling The Energy In The Room. I Definitely Didn't Want To Make One Of Those.

Any Kind Of Anthemic Song, For The Most Part, They're On The Positive Side Of Things. It's Not Hard To Identify When A Melody Is Just One Degree Too Complicated Or One Degree Too Simple And Where That Line Of Pop Memorability Lies.

But That Constant Adjustment And Adaptation To Your New Environment, All The Variables Are The Same. There's Always A Promoter, There's Always A Rider, There's Always A Shower, And There's Always A Stage.

No Matter Who Weaves In And Out Of Your Life, Regardless Of The Quality Of Those Deep Friendships And Familyships, I'm The Only Common Denominator At This Point Who's Been With Me The Whole Time. And There's This Sense Of Trying To Make Sense Of That Ultimate Solitude. It's Not A Negative Or Even A Positive. It's Just A Fact.