the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its own reason for being.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

Elvis made it the singer, not the song. He's the reason rock 'n' roll is still alive.

Our last album was kind of crammed full of melodies, and for whatever reason, we felt like every song we wrote for it, the natural thing was to try and put a melody on top to make it real concrete. We've kind of been shying away from that. A few things we've been working on, we've left them in a more open area where they could be flexible. They don't have to be so grounded in a strict melodic structure.