I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.
Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.
When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.