Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

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