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We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.