"The thing is about this song... I mean, I'm still a young man. I'm permanently a young man. No matter how I start to look, I'm still 20, right? But, when you are a young writer, boys get this idea that, to really show a woman the depth and purity of your love, what you have to do is something drastic and stupid, right? And young writers think it would be really intense to have a guy always harm himself real bad, and then, you know, I tell these stories. And so, well, I was a young writer once, and here's a song about a guy who travels someplace with a gun." - JD on NPR's "Tiny Desk Concert," 2010.03.15
"The thing is about this song... I mean, I'm still a young man. I'm permanently a young man. No matter how I start to look, I'm still 20, right? But, when you are a young writer, boys get this idea that, to really show a woman the depth and purity of your love, what you have to do is something drastic and stupid, right? And young writers think it would be really intense to have a guy always harm himself real bad, and then, you know, I tell these stories. And so, well, I was a young writer once, and here's a song about a guy who travels someplace with a gun." - JD on NPR's "Tiny Desk Concert," 2010.03.15