Where did the “Inhale” and “Exhale” songs come from?
I like the way they break up the album a bit. They were as sporadic as sporadic gets. We were finishing up the record, and to get everything completely done, we had some vocals to fix and a little bit of overdubbing to do, we booked a few days at the studio in New York. It was Sunday night, six o’clock, and we were done and we had the studio until midnight! So obviously we were unbelievably excited and elated about the whole thing being finished. So we broke out some bottles of wine, and everybodys smoking whatever, really kind of kicking back and patting ourselves on the back. So I was like, “Dude we’ve got six hours, lets try to do something with this!” So “Exhale” was my track. It was something I had been playing around with on the tour before that. So I went in the vocal booth with an acoustic guitar and threw it down and it worked. I think it’s a beautiful piece. It’s a mood, a vibe. To me, it stood for being spontaneous, the feeling of where we were at. The sense of finishing a p
