Matt Will
Matt Will
coffee flower weather
Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.
thinking rocks rock-and-roll
I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.
kids thinking perspective
Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.
people community together
Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.
thinking guy balance
I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.
song bulls half
I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.
vacation turns i-can
I can never turn a tour into a vacation.
song party what-if
The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.
home writing years
I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.
nice real character
I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.
fun focus having-fun
I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.
kids dark parent
My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.
song real heart
Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.
brother wind frustrated
Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [ Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but ... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.