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Instagram live: April 23, 2018

Answering fan questions

Do I listen to my own songs in my free time? Only the ones I'm working on. Or, every once in a while, and I mean like, every once in a while, I'll pick a record and listen back to it. And now I'm getting to the age where I'm listening back to songs and there are parts I don't remember. Like I couldn't tell you how they go if you stopped [them]. Like, "New Deep"? I was playing some part of it and I was like, I actually don't remember writing this part.

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"Studio version of In Your Atmosphere please." Let me tell you what would happen if I made a studio version of "In Your Atmosphere." I would think that I was doing something that you liked. And I would put it out, and message boards, and everybody would say "I liked the live version better." I know you. I love you, but I know you enough to predict what you will say if I do certain things. If I made a studio version of In Your Atmosphere, you guys would all say the live acoustic version was better. So I'm just not doing it.

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"Another Kind of Green, studio [version]." Now, that's actually kind of a more interesting idea. I do like that song. I like that song. And you guys have kept it alive in some ways. I do like that song. I like that guitar riff. That's a really good guitar riff, as far as I'm concerned. I don't know that I made the best song out of it.

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What song am I most proud of? Gravity, for its efficiency.

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"War of My Life: anxiety song?" Well that's a good question. Yeah. Not all of it, I don't feel like. Yeah, maybe it was, now that I think about it. How does it go? "Come out angels, come out ghosts, come out..." I don't remember. I think I mentioned having a pill in my pocket in that song.

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Do I read books? I sometimes read books. But they take a long time to get through because I fall asleep. Or I'll just be scanning and realize that my brain dislodged from the lines in the book, and I'm just now having my own thoughts, and I don't know what I'm looking at.

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A song I wish was more well known? I wish everyone knew "Trouble" by Ray LaMontagne. And when I say everybody, I mean everybody. That song everybody should know. As many people as know "Don't Know Why" by Norah Jones, should know "Trouble." And maybe they do by now. But I always thought that song was -- it was the only time in my life when I almost thought, like, can he put it on his second record again?

Like, can I put "In The Blood" on my next record again? You should be able to re-rack a song if you think it was better than people thought at the moment, and be like, give me another shot. That would be so cool if you were allowed to put, like, an old track on the next record, being like, let's try that again everybody. Cause that shit was great, and ya missed it. Ya dang missed it.

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