I Know More Than I Knew Before

I Spent Some Time In France, Visited Egypt And Mexico City. I Hung Out, Biked Around, Planted Some Tomatoes. I Did Everything Except Wake Up In A New Town Everyday. It Was Really Boring. It's Just Life.

Probably, On Some Subconscious Level, I Was Motivated By Not Wanting To Spoon-feed Any Similar Flavors.

Gatekeeper Was Sort Of My First Attempt To Put A Little Bit Of A Frame And Boundaries Around Songwriting, And Try To Figure Out A Way To Approach It That Had A Sort Of End Result In Mind. I Havent Written Many Like That.

The Group-effort Sound In Recording Of Sea Lion Is Like, You Really Hear All The People In The Room And Hear Them Interlocking. Theres A Real Freight-train Energy Of All These People At The Same Time Playing.

You Can Get Anywhere On Earth By Falling Asleep.