The Only Way I Was Allowed To

Set Your Guitars And Banjos On Fire And Before You Write A Song Smoke A Pack Of Whiskey And It'll All Take Care Of Itself.

Sometimes Things In Life Take A Few Years To Digest, And They Find Their Way Into The Work Later On. Sometimes I'm Writing About Things From Eight Years Ago-they Just Took A Long Time To Distill And Come Out In The Appropriate Way.

Every Band I Knew Or Played With Had Flyers And Properly-recorded Demos And Contacts; I Couldn't Even Get A Gig.

Every Time You Go In, It's Like Starting Over. You Don't Know How You Did The Other Records. You're Learning All Over. It's Some Weird Musician Amnesia, Or Maybe The Road Wipes It Out.

Back Then, Pro Tools Only Had Four Or Eight Tracks, So We Couldn't Actually Hear All The Tracks. We Could Only Hear Eight At A Time, So If A Song Had 25 Or 30 Tracks, We Wouldn't Be Able To Hear It Until We Went Into The Studio An Put It All On Tape. The Process Was A Little Bit Backwards.