It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.
Hopefully, most days, you're like, "This is sweet. I wake up and do the things that I do and I'm usually smiling. " That's how my dad is with his job.
When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place. "
What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.
Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.
I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, "Here comes another Bon Iver album!" I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.
I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.
Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.
I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.
I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.