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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...keep your new album, Have One on Me, such a secret? No one even knew it was coming until about a month ago. I didn't want to announce it and have it be delayed. There'd been so many setbacks along the way that I wanted to make sure the album was in the can and completely ready to go. Also, we were trying to prevent it from being leaked...
...write notes to people? I had a dry-erase board I'd take around but I didn't use it much. It made me avoid social interactions more than I already do. I just turned into a shut-in who dreaded going grocery shopping...
...about meaning and mood and thematic stuff, going into some awkward realms of discussions. I find it awkward to talk about song meaning. The way we got around that awkwardness was for Ryan to interview me. Somewhere he must have some very incriminating piles of notes for things I'd never talk about in a real interview but it was important to me that he and Neal understood the spirit of the songs...
What did you do for those two months? It was completely bizarre. I'd recorded all of the piano and the harp. I wanted to finish the album. It was like, "Oh, come on." It was really scary for me - also bizarre and depressing. This is definitely stating the obvious here, but you feel very isolated when you can't talk to people...
...Bonnie D. Ford, who is covering the Games for ESPN.com, has been to every Winter Olympics since 1998 in Nagano, Japan. "There's no second place," she said when asked where Vancouver ranks on the booze barometer. (In fairness, you can pretty much strike from the debate Salt Lake City, the abstemious host of the 2002 Olympics.) Ford's hotel is near Granville Street, close enough for her to hear the "Can-a-da, Can-a-da" shouts at 3 a.m. "It's been a two-week tailgate," she said. "I've covered a lot of college football, and this...