Whats day to day life like out in the desert?
Our day to day schedule varies by season. In the summertime the days do get brutally warm, so I tend to stay up at night, when it’s cool. I’ll sleep in the day. I like to paint and draw. And I like to build little things out of things I find in the desert. You find a lot of history in the desert. Lots of stories. You find bits of people’s lives — their old dreams are out there, rusting. I’ll find things, put things together. I’m kind of a “make do world” type of person. Did that interest inspire “Junk” from Water to Drink? No [laughs]. Actually, the inspiration for that song was… I thought I’d get a new guitar, because I always play my Strat. I thought I’d get this little electric guitar, and I brought it back to the house. I was tuning on it, and it wouldn’t hold the tuning. I looked down the neck and it was bowed, and I thought, “They put this guitar together while the wood was green!” It was just like, junk! And then “Junk” came out. You know, we have very good water where we liv
