It's healthier than that, in that we are both branching out and trying to bring in new life to the duo, and new experiences. Other than that, I tend to be influenced by a lot of bands from the independent music scene in the southeast. The reason the bands on the record are on the record is that they've been very influential to my songwriting in the last five years. This record took me a year to make, because I was on tour with the Indigo Girls while I was making it. I also wrote songs during the year as I was making it.
Some songs are two or three years old by the time they get recorded.
They evolve during that time, sometimes, but I don't have a set process for the amount of time between writing a song and recording it. I think I probably would have developed in the same way. I might have developed faster in some senses, because, early in my career, I was lazy, sometimes. That was because Emily was so good that I could fall back on her. I never just pull lyrics out of nowhere.