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People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

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Craig Finn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 22
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Boston
Massachusetts
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People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.
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I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.
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If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.
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I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, That was pretty good, it might go better. Maybe that's what I'll try to find.
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It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.
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Being on a microphone nightly has made me better at what I do, made me better able to sing a little bit, but also more confident at trying it.
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I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.
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Ray Cappo never tried to convert me into a Krishna, although one of his cohorts probably did. I think it was just about being wrapped up in this thing. Hardcore, at one point, meant everything to me. Now you look back, and I still think it's cool, but to some extent I grew out of it. Other things became a bigger priority for me.
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One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.
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If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.
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I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
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Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.
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I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.
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If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.
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You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.
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Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.
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One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.
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I don't have a problem rhyming bar with car - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.
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I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.
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You can't get every girl you get the ones you love the best.
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