” There isn’t much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom. “
” I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, ‘Youth With a Mission.’ I was a kid – I was 18 – and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas. “
” I’m pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I’m tougher than I used to be. There’s been a lot of hardship along the way. But that’s what life is. And it’s how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you’re going to be. “
” There’s this element of surprise when you’re writing songs, like it’s something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it’s just exciting. And that’s why I keep writing – because I like that feeling. “
” I’ve always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine. “
” The last album, ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run.’ I was really proud of, but then I didn’t actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn’t know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called ‘Closer. “
” My original project was called ‘The Wheel’, there’s a record out there called ‘Desire & The Dissolving Man,’ ‘The Memory Of Loss’ as well. There’s also ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run,’ also ‘Closer’, all of that’s on our website. “
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