- Well, is there any time that somebody
made me nervous and I didn't know what to say?
One time I really fancied this girl on a night out.
She came over to me and she was, she really, really knew me,
and she was like, "Alex," and I was like, "Yeah,"
and she went, "Oh my God," and hugged me,
and I was like, all right, I can sort this out later.
Alex was the gay best friend of her best friend
that she was gonna be meeting at this bar.
I spent 25 minutes pretending to be a gay guy
looking out to find a way to change it and be in the line.
How did I?
I said that I was going for a cig and I left.
If You're Too Shy was two songs.
Initially, it was two different musical compositions
that we just jammed together in the end.
It took us quite awhile.
I think that, to me, there's almost a rebellion
in that music.
The inspiration just came from our confidence
that, to be honest with you, a lot of the time
when we're together, that's the music that happens,
and I think sometimes you shy away from it,
no pun intended, and we didn't with this one, yeah.
I see her online all the time.
You see your ex-girlfriend, and it stings, yeah.
You see what you don't want in people.
You see what you do want in people.
You see what you don't want in your partner.
You see what you do want in your partner.
I look on my Facebook page, and there will be
a photo of a girl, or a guy, and they'll just,
it'll be their ass, and then, there will be
a long paragraph about how they've struggled
with eczema since they were a kid, and it's weird.
Oh, Mondays, don't know how you guys are feeling,
but since my brother died, it's like fuck, man.
I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at right now.
What am I looking for in the girl of my dreams?
Ridiculous question, I don't fucking know.
Girl of your dreams, know what I mean?
No, the visual world, which is the internet,
tells us that everything is amazing,
and we should want everything, and it makes us yearn
for everything that we don't have,
and everything that's unattainable.
The twins are the twins that are in my band.
I've got a pair of twins who are in my band.
They sing and dance in my band, and I toy with them,
so that line is about jet lag and being in fucking Nebraska,
and not having a key, and being,
the manager's in bed, and it's like, where are we?
I thought this was a hotel, you know what I mean?
And I've gotta ring one of the girls to try and let me in
to the hotel if you know what I mean
because I've gotta get on FaceTime because it's fucking
two o'clock in the afternoon in Timbuktu,
or wherever my partner is, and I'm waiting for breakfast
to open, or something.
It's that thing.
I think that it's about how removing one's clothes,
removing, metaphorically and physically,
that declaration of intimacy in the presence
of somebody else, that's something that in real life,
in first person to person has a lot of connotations
of trust, and truth, and connection, and doing that
on the internet has the opposite of those connotations,
but let's say that you fall in love with somebody
on the internet, and you don't know what they look like.
In real life, you want to explore each other's body,
physical presence, the person that you love.
That would never be seen or perceived as voyeuristic,
or anything apart from an intimate exchange,
whereas as soon as it happens on the internet,
it becomes kinky, and cam girl-y.
If you're in a relationship with somebody
that being naked around them would not make you
feel weird at all.
It doesn't have connotations of being
suggestive, or performative.
If you're in a long-distance relationship,
and you're naked, you feel weird.
I've been wearing nothing every time I call you,
and I'm starting to feel weird about it
because it's not the same.
Sometimes it's better to be reserved,
and really, really think about it,
but sometimes, you just get pissed and stalk your ex,
or a girl, or whatever.
I've been in a relationship where fucking,
you have this weird sense of sexual,
not sexual, but just sexual, intimate ownership
over the other person, and if you're a girl,
you feel like a crazy bitch, and if you're a guy,
you feel like a misogynist
because this is part of breaking up.
Those lines are about being in different contexts,
different places, but maintaining the same things.
Your relationship can really be affected
by how good your Wi-Fi is.
One day, if you have no Wi-Fi on the wrong day,
and you're in a long-distance relationship
where you're not gonna see each other for two months,
that can fuck shit up.
I think that that's also just a funny observation
about touring, and constantly finding myself
in random parts of America, trying to live a domestic life
that just isn't there.