Yeah. We can't use all of my old stuff, so I'm trying some new things. I did recopy some things I already finished, though.

[Without even looking up, he gestures vaguely at a few of the notebooks stacked next to him They're filled with notes, photocopies of pages from history books, sketches, and pages and pages of song lyrics that look like what would happen if the Decemberists became fixated on cowboys. It's really no wonder The Old Dirt Road didn't make use of him as a lyricist.]