Can you tell me about the situation in “Corrido Por Buddy”?
That was definitely my public service reminder. If there’s someone around who is just holding on and you like that person, you should make sure that person knows because maybe their thread is getting thinner. That’s about having missed a window of opportunity. When I was in Portland, I was spending time with a lot of people who happened to be former Mormons. They rebelled from their parents, but Buddy actually decided to try and make it back. I was introduced to him by my friend Stefan Jecusco. I didn’t know a lot of people who had killed themselves before and it affected me. I never got a chance to tell him that I liked him. When we were recording the song about him, Stefan had come over. [Co-producer] Shahzad [Ali Ismaily] and Rachel [Blumberg] were downstairs in this house and I was upstairs. While they were recording the track, there was a chandelier above them that had both white lights and red lights and all of the white lights kept blinking on and off. Just the white ones. We ch
