Glen Phillips

internet connectivity or devices, I tend to start with an initial panic and then find myself becoming very peaceful. But I also know that since I was a kid, I've been someone who hyper-focuses on things that are shiny and then can't concentrate at all on things that aren't shiny and tends to switch modes. For me, solo touring in particular is...

internet connectivity or devices, I tend to start with an initial panic and then find myself becoming very peaceful. But I also know that since I was a kid, I've been someone who hyper-focuses on things that are shiny and then can't concentrate at all on things that aren't shiny and tends to switch modes. For me, solo touring in particular is...

really good for me because every day I have to drive to the have to eat have to drive to the venue have to get ready have to eat again have to deal with people have to play have to sell the merch have to settle the show have to go to sleep and then have to do it again the next day and there's none of that time to get existentially confused the way I do at home where my job is to write the best song I've ever written

really good for me because every day I have to drive to the have to eat have to drive to the venue have to get ready have to eat again have to deal with people have to play have to sell the merch have to settle the show have to go to sleep and then have to do it again the next day and there's none of that time to get existentially confused the way I do at home where my job is to write the best song I've ever written

really good for me because every day I have to drive to the have to eat have to drive to the venue have to get ready have to eat again have to deal with people have to play have to sell the merch have to settle the show have to go to sleep and then have to do it again the next day and there's none of that time to get existentially confused the way I do at home where my job is to write the best song I've ever written

every day. That's all that's ever expected of me. And so that's like a daunting way to wake up in the morning. And there's tons of ways of distracting myself from writing at all because I go into this stakes are too high, can't start doing anything mode.

every day. That's all that's ever expected of me. And so that's like a daunting way to wake up in the morning. And there's tons of ways of distracting myself from writing at all because I go into this stakes are too high, can't start doing anything mode.

every day. That's all that's ever expected of me. And so that's like a daunting way to wake up in the morning. And there's tons of ways of distracting myself from writing at all because I go into this stakes are too high, can't start doing anything mode.

Yeah, I mean, I've gone to Nashville any number of times. I've got to get in the professional songwriting thing so I can stop touring so much. And I always get in room with the Nashville guys and they go, I'm so sick of writing crap. I just want to write a real song with you. It's like, I want to write crap. I don't want to write crap, but I'd love to write something popular again.

Yeah, I mean, I've gone to Nashville any number of times. I've got to get in the professional songwriting thing so I can stop touring so much. And I always get in room with the Nashville guys and they go, I'm so sick of writing crap. I just want to write a real song with you. It's like, I want to write crap. I don't want to write crap, but I'd love to write something popular again.

Yeah, I mean, I've gone to Nashville any number of times. I've got to get in the professional songwriting thing so I can stop touring so much. And I always get in room with the Nashville guys and they go, I'm so sick of writing crap. I just want to write a real song with you. It's like, I want to write crap. I don't want to write crap, but I'd love to write something popular again.

But I don't seem to be able to do it. And I think the fact that I could do it at all back in the day was more a fluke of timing. than anything else because I've always, I don't know, been a little maudlin or heavy. Keep finding if I try to do things that aren't true to me, I'm terrible at them. And the stuff that inspires me is the stuff I'm chewing on and trying to figure out.

But I don't seem to be able to do it. And I think the fact that I could do it at all back in the day was more a fluke of timing. than anything else because I've always, I don't know, been a little maudlin or heavy. Keep finding if I try to do things that aren't true to me, I'm terrible at them. And the stuff that inspires me is the stuff I'm chewing on and trying to figure out.

But I don't seem to be able to do it. And I think the fact that I could do it at all back in the day was more a fluke of timing. than anything else because I've always, I don't know, been a little maudlin or heavy. Keep finding if I try to do things that aren't true to me, I'm terrible at them. And the stuff that inspires me is the stuff I'm chewing on and trying to figure out.

And so for me, songwriting is where I get to explore my dark places or write a note from my future better self to my current self with some useful advice and perspective. And I think in the last, I don't know, 10 years, I have shifted a lot as a writer in terms of

And so for me, songwriting is where I get to explore my dark places or write a note from my future better self to my current self with some useful advice and perspective. And I think in the last, I don't know, 10 years, I have shifted a lot as a writer in terms of

And so for me, songwriting is where I get to explore my dark places or write a note from my future better self to my current self with some useful advice and perspective. And I think in the last, I don't know, 10 years, I have shifted a lot as a writer in terms of

purposefulness as well and trying to think what am i serving and what message does this put out is me just making whatever art i want to make enough or should it have relevance to people should it and i even find that the art i want to make and the kind of art i want to make changes from time to time because if you're trying to change people's lives or make something really impactful as an artist

purposefulness as well and trying to think what am i serving and what message does this put out is me just making whatever art i want to make enough or should it have relevance to people should it and i even find that the art i want to make and the kind of art i want to make changes from time to time because if you're trying to change people's lives or make something really impactful as an artist

purposefulness as well and trying to think what am i serving and what message does this put out is me just making whatever art i want to make enough or should it have relevance to people should it and i even find that the art i want to make and the kind of art i want to make changes from time to time because if you're trying to change people's lives or make something really impactful as an artist