All right. More questions from the fine listenership on X. Part 5. Why do you do philosophy stuff?

Well, it's funny because I would say that I don't so much do philosophy as philosophy does me.

And what I mean by that is the ideas, the inspirations, the arguments, the clarifications

come fast and furious. And I just kind of channel them. Of course, I put work into refining

and all that kind of stuff, but there's something that songwriters talk about. Roger Hutchson

talks about this with the logical song, where he says, like, who knows where that comes from? And Bob Dylan says, you know,

like if I could write those kinds of songs every day, that's what I would do, right? I mean,

how long has it been since Paul McGartney had a hit, right? Well, he would write yesterday every day,

if he could, right? But do you write the

songs or you just kind of prepare yourself with rigor and then go through the process of creation?

But I won't say the songs write you because that's kind of cliched, but you don't kind of do

songwriting. Songwriting kind of does you. So I don't do philosophy. Philosophy kind of cliched, but you don't kind of do songwriting.

Songwriting kind of does you.

So I don't do philosophy.

Philosophy kind of does me.

A lot of the stuff comes out of the unconscious and out of a certain kind of semi-feasurerish

inspiration.

The analogies pop into my head and I shape them and move them, but it is not something that I do. It is something that is

almost done unto me. This is what people who create say that they're just kind of channeling

something deeper or wider than themselves, and that certainly is the case for me, and I, you know,

try to be rigorous and make sure that it's not just some seismic, unconscious blarp that echoes out across the world

confusing people, but to try and shape it into something positive.

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