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I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

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Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

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Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

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For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

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My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

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I was really shy as a kid.

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The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

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I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 26th, 1970

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