The Nature Of Honesty Is That If

Everything I Write Is Personal, Really. Even When I'm Sarcastic, It's Quite Personal. And On This Record, From The Production To The Singing To The Performances, I Got It Really Honest. To The Modern Ear, It Seems Soft. When You Hear It Against Other Things, It Seems Vulnerable. Lyrically And Musically, Though, This Is More Subtle. And, Yes, It's Asking A Lot Of Someone Who's Used To Being Hit Over The Head With Bright Neon To Listen To This.

But I Really Do Have A Soft Spot For The Solo Shows. Any Musician Who Writes And Sings Will Tell You That's The Center Of It, That Is It. It's Almost Like There's Something Church-like About It And You Gotta Go Back There, If You're A Songwriter That Sings Your Material.

If The Melody Is Telling Me This Is What The Song Is About, Then I'm Sort Of Forced Into Confession, Autobiography Or Fantasy. If I Don't Do That, I've Hamstrung The Melody.

With A Song, It Only Takes A Couple Of Minutes To Go Back To The Beginning And Try It Again To See If It Works. The Novel Freaks Me Out Because, What If You Get Into The Eighth Chapter And Think, 'let's Go To The Top And See If This Works Again? It's Going To Take Me Three Weeks.' I'm In Awe Of That.

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