I think the reason the song is
successful is because the writer creates
something from the center of their chest
it is that is absolutely real it's that
connection
thanks again
thanks again lucky oh thanks again sake
thanks again lucky there's a bit of a
connection based on my conversations
with these two wonderful gentlemen to
the film called phantom of the paradise
where they think the sense of the mask
and working behind the mask may have
been born that see the change
Dobies like child as somebody who became
very much addicted to the attention I
became better at showing off than
showing up you know I did 48 tonight
shows I remember six I don't think
there's anything more pathetic than some
little ol man going please sir may I
have some more fame you know on that
level I love that they choose to be
anonymous
I am deeply respectful of somebody who
who expresses their craft in their art
without the hunger for the public
attention they disconnect who they are
to allow you to experience what they
create ultimately what I do is you know
they're good these guys who work the
United Nations who translate from one
language to another I hear words in
music it's what I do sometimes I write
words and music and a lot of times I'll
write words to other people's music and
it's an interesting journey and it's a
journey of pure surprise for me because
I I never know what I'm going to hear
you know one of the great things about
working on this album is that we worked
on it at the advances to do the Henson
studios was am records I was a contract
writer at A&M Records I made albums
frein and records I made albums
instantly my even my family didn't buy
but they were really important to me I
remember stepping out of this studio
going across the hall and getting Joni
Mitchell Jackson Browne of four or five
Giants in the industry and getting them
to come in and sing background on a song
of mine called out in the country but it
was all suits the Jim Henson studio and
I have you know I wrote all the songs
for you know for the Muppet movie Muppet
Christmas Carol that you know I have
that that whole history um they will
find it
Rainbow Connection
the dreamer and me almost as if she
knows as if somebody's whispering to us
as if the universe is going you know
what to get you in just the right place
to work on this album with Daft Punk
we're gonna just you know kind of screw
around with your mind a little bit we're
gonna take you and put you in a room
right next to the room where you used to
sit and sweat out songs you know on a
daily basis
my wife was eating a tangerine and she's
closed your eyes I saw Chloe go survive
she took a piece of tangerine and she
said I am now giving you a taste of a
fruit from another planet that that
you've never tasted before and she just
took me on this wonderful little little
yeah wonderful little trip as we used to
say in the days of the drugs this
wonderful little trip that I was about
to taste something that I had never
experienced before
they're elements that in this record the
first thing we talked about was like Who
am I writing for and what we talked
about was an unidentified first person
in other words we don't know if this is
an alien this is some creature waking up
coming out of a coma experiencing life
as if it was for the first time and we
never really identified totally who that
person was but but again we identified
the emotions but then these specifics
the lyric came out of the out of the
music I mean their music is that's a
gorgeous melody ba ba da dee da da da da
da da da da dee da da da da
I mean for guys that are famous for
techno pop whatever this is elegant
beautiful composition and it touched me
from for me listening to myself at that
moment I feel I sound so vulnerable if I
sounded so little you know and I've
spent my entire life trying to be big or
kidding I'm president chair of the board
of ASCAP lova lova lova law you know
look look look look me me me me me me me
and what I think is the prettiest that
I've ever sounded is when I'm allowing
myself to be honest and vulnerable and
they gave me that opportunity so this
has been a real gift for me this has
been a real gift I mean you can't get
any hipper any more current any more
adventurous any more courageous in the
world of music than death pot and for
somebody of my age and at this point in
my life - all of a sudden have an
opportunity to be picked up by these
guys and sit down in the middle of this
at this vulnerable sweet sweet little
moment is a wonderful gift
my life changed it intensely 23 years
ago when I got sober and at that point
slowly but surely I began to realize it
every day is a gift and I hope that's in
that song I hope that's in that there is
that sense of wandering in that song and
and beyond also you know like because
I'm this is a life beyond life for me
you know I have buried a lot of friends
from addiction through the years and all
of a sudden to have a life that is just
the chain of surprise this elegant chain
of surprise I use the word elegant a lot
because end and grace a lot because
there's an elegance and there's a grace
to what they've created here I think and
I think it's an interesting parallel for
how I feel about my life in general I
think that's why you know I find you
know that nine-minute journey of touch
it's very emotional for me
and I hope it will be for other people
this is a chance to do what every great
artist wants to do is to offer their
audience a chance to be elevated to a
new a new intensity of emotion of
Oh
Mexican lucky
okay she's up all night to the Sun I'm
up all night to get sorrow
she's up all night for good fun I'm up
all night to get lucky we're up all
night to the Sun we're up all night to
get some
goodbye Mexican