“No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.” TryingMatterWholeFactsCommonQualitySolitudeNegativeUltimateMake SenseCommon DenominatorDeep Friendship Author:Feist
“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.” WayTryingMindFirstsLittlesEndsBitsResultsWrittenFiguresApproachLittle BitBoundariesSongwritingEnd ResultsGatekeepers Author:Feist
“Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.” WritingTryingWould BeTermImpossibleHappenedAbstract Author:Feist
“I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge.” TryingSometimesRememberPicksGuitarHeyGrudgeRemember Me Author:Feist
“When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100 stories up - it's momentum and it doesn't just stop. I drew a line in the calendar and made it a brick wall and just stopped dead. There was no other way. It would've taken another 100 years to slow down slowly. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.” TryingFallTakenImagineWallTrainSlow DownBrick Wall Author:Feist
