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I mean, Roger Goodell is a pretty bad commissioner but this is pretty harsh.

The song 1979 absolutely transports me back to the happiest time in my life. Was that song based on an actual experience you had? Do you remember how that song came to you?

Who would win in a naked cage fight between you and Harrison Ford?

There's a great section in Life of Pi about zoos. Really changed my perspective. This is part of it:

“Well-meaning but misinformed people think animals in the wild are “happy” because they are “free”. These people usually have a large, handsome predator in mind…The life of the wild animal is simple, noble and meaningful, they imagine. Then it is captured by wicked men and thrown into tiny jails. Its “happiness” is dashed. It yearns mightily for “freedom” and does all it can to escape. Being denied its “freedom” for too long, the animal becomes a shadow of itself, its spirit broken. So some people imagine. This is not the way it is.

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured…"

You have written some of the most beautiful songs (ie Disarm) along with very dark music (ie Bullet with Butterfly Wings). Do you have to force yourself to write one way over the other or do that drastically different music styles naturally come to you?