Dan Reynolds

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Dan Reynolds is the lead vocalist and founding member of Imagine Dragons. Alongside guitarist Wayne Sermon, he founded the pop rock band in 2008, releasing their debut album, Night Visions, in 2012. From the album, hit single “Radioactive” won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance and achieved RIAA Diamond Status. As the frontman of Imagine Dragons, Reynolds has led the band through a string of Platinum and multi-Platinum albums, including Smoke + Mirrors, Evolve, and Origins. In recognition of his songwriting talent, he received the Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award in 2014. Outside of music, Reynolds founded the LOVELOUD Foundation to support and uplift LGBTQ+ youth through music. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammitan
0:02.0	Tetracketameter I really genuinely have never experienced writer's block.
0:27.6	I don't know that feeling.
0:29.6	And I don't say that in a way of like, ha ha, look at me.
0:32.6	It's more just like, there's infinite sounds, and they're always interesting to me. And if you don't like one, well, there's infinite sounds and they're always interesting to me.
0:38.2	Yeah.
0:38.5	And if you don't like one, well, there's another thing.
0:41.1	Yeah.
0:41.4	I do experience Riders Block if I'm not healthy.
0:44.6	If I'm not living sober, I get less inspired to create.
0:49.2	That's the first thing I find.
0:50.8	If I'm drinking or if I'm like in a not good headspace.
0:54.5	How often have you not lived sober? I think of you as a pretty sober individual.
0:58.6	Yeah. I think that I'm so promoted as those values and I love that and that is a big part of my life.
1:06.2	And I try to live sober all the time. So I think that is part of my life.
1:09.3	But I would say in the last 10 years,
1:12.4	I've been more not sober than sober for whatever that, whatever that means. Is that usually
1:17.7	as a form of celebration or as a form of escape? No, not celebration. If it was a celebration,
1:25.3	then I would not even say the word sober, right? Because I think that that's great.
1:29.3	I think if you're with your friends and it's like, for me, I'm not, that isn't why I ever turned to any sort of substance.
1:36.3	For me, it's always escapism.
1:38.3	And that's where it's, I'm like, okay, this isn't healthy.
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