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Do you think about this - do you think about trends or are you,
as an artist, trying to buck the trends and trying
to do something that's very different?
No, I think that it's - as an artist,
I think that I didn't necessarily have maybe the mainstream success I
had until recently because I was so caught up in trying to kind of just
make albums like from the 1960s or 1970s like Beatles-esque type of albums
and I started to just lose focus on what was happening now.
And I think with the last album I had,
I had realized that I was just going to get left behind
if I wasn't going to start paying attention.
There is a lot of terrible music out there,
most of it is terrible but there is a lot of good stuff and there
is people trying to do new things and I let it influence me.
I have become better;
a better songwriter, just a better person,
by acknowledging what's happening right now.
I think it used to just kind of scare me a little bit but now I think
that it's been one of the biggest reasons for my successes;
to acknowledge that there is something
in front of me that's happening.