Adam Granduciel

“I love when things can repeat and you can make things slightly different each time and just react to the music and react to the recording.”

“When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos.”

“Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.”

“I try to take whatever I can from the songs I grew up listening to, these vibed-out pop numbers, and make them my own in some weird way.”

“As he grew older, his material was just as relevant and just as exciting and the band's just as killer... It seems surreal that there's no more Tom Petty, in person.”

“Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.”

“I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.”

“I just need to work. There's no other thing with me.”

“My kind of music is probably not going to shoot to the top, but I'm fine with that. There's still enough rock'n'roll soldiers.”

“All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.”

“When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.”

“I ended up renting a studio in L.A. for about 15 months. Starting in January of 2016, some of the guys in the band were coming out once every five to six weeks for like five days a time.”

“I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.”

“It was definitely strange to come home and all of a sudden have to shift gears into creative mode. I kind of had to figure out what it was about music that made it exciting, and question what it was that made it worth sacrificing all the other parts of my life that weren't as satisfying.”

“It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.”

“In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield and Sonic Boom. I like those three a lot!”

“I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.”

“I remember that in the past I was overwhelmed with the mystery of anxiety, or the mystery of depression, but now when you feel that feeling coming on you no longer go into fight-or-flight mode. You go: 'Oh, I know what this is' and you ride it out.”

“I'd love to do denim merch sometime, though. That's pretty much the mainstay of my wardrobe. I have a bunch of denim jackets I wear all the time.”

“Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound. You don't want one thing to be bright, or too prevalent.”