Gavin
there and make music, and if they weren’t
with me for a weekend, I’d go into the stu-
make sense of everything that’s happened,
it seems.
GR: Yeah. That’s what it is. With a much
larger nod to the future. Much larger. I felt
that it would have been disingenuous to
not have some degree of reference to the
messy situation and its details. It’s like the
elephant in the room, so the elephant was
addressed on the record. I felt that was
enough, and so I moved on. I mean, the
world is so big, and we’re like pieces of
dust. And the idea that there should be an
autopsy about some failed relationship?
06•2017
dio later on a Friday night and then work
through Saturday and Sunday. So I feel
really rejuvenated, artistically. So that’s
been fantastic, and I’ve also been writing
for other people and working on a new
cooking show called Iamfeeder, all one
word, where I invite people to my house
and I cook for them. I did one with Tom
Jones, actually. I love to cook, and I love to
talk to people. And I’ll shoot more
episodes in August, I guess, if it gets
picked up.
IE: And at least you didn’t compose a sad,
cloying baby-come-back album like Robin
Thicke’s pathetic “Paula.”
GR: Ha! No, that wasn’t in the cards.
IE: The record is retrospective, and tries to
Bush, 1995
That’s just not in my wheelhouse. So that
was never going to happen. But there were
songs I did write that I just needed to
write, these certain things that I just need-
ed to say. But the only person that ever
heard them was my engineer and my ex-
manager, who I terrified away with my
depressing songs.
IE: There are many lyrical mentions of
color and nature on the album. Were they
visual comforts?
GR: Yeah, they have been. Because that’s
the whole thing that they teach you if you
do enough therapy – don’t navel-gaze,
look up, look at the sky, look at the trees,
look at things outside of yourself. Because
depression can get very restrictive,
because it builds that wall around you
where all you can see, everywhere you
turn, is your own perspective. And that’s
boring. There’s way more to life than your
own view of it. So that’s why I moved on
to songs about the world, songs about cli-
mate change. And I don’t know how much
of a center stage that takes with everybody
– not enough, I would think. But it’s a very
confusing time right now, and now seeing
this new president and how he works?
The world is really getting shaken up right
now.
IE: Any optimistic conclusions you’ve
come to?
GR: I think that through great troubles,
you grow. And when you’re challenged
like this, well, there’s a line in a song that
says, “We are how we reply.” So for me, I
could have gone many different ways – I
could have moved to Korea and lived a
selfish, solitary existence. But I maintained
a focus on my kids, as is every parent’s
responsibility. And then I got back to
doing what I love the most, and thereby
had my kids’ continued respect. So the les-
son really is that every ending is a begin-
ning, and life is a series of chapters. And
however sad tat might seem, it’s not all
doom and gloom.
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