“I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.” WritingTryingI CanNightSongProcessRecordsDisappearRelateEvery NightGoing OutDrudgery Author:Andrew Bird
“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.” LittlesI CanSongHoursMonthsCoupleSittingDesperateCompanionMelodyPullingFragmentsAirports Author:Andrew Bird
“Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.” I CanHonestCapacityDeceptionMelodyClicheTrickyVernacularSubtextOverused Author:Andrew Bird
“I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.” IfsKindI CanArtistSunFourStudiosCoffeeExperimentsTeethGet UpGet AwayBrushesBarns Author:Andrew Bird
“There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.” I CanSongStrugglePopsRepetitivePop Song Author:Andrew Bird
“I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.” KnowsTryingYearsI CanBodyShapesCalmHandlePanicStay Calm Author:Andrew Bird
“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindI CanHardLightLastsSongAsksProcessCreativityAudienceFireHard WorkExpectationsPercentWriting ProcessVacuums Author:Andrew Bird
“A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.” I CanShowsSoundCitiesSituationCreativeImagineWalkingSightKillingHearingAgendasUnfamiliarFertileDays OffTime To KillSight And Sound Author:Andrew Bird
