"I started thinking, 'What if this was the last record that I could ever make? What if this was the last thing I could say? What if this was my final statement?' Not everyone gets to make records that people hear. Not everyone gets to make records at all. A lot of things just sit around the shelf. If I have a chance to say something, I want to say something really, really cool."

Up top is an excerpt from the interview Brightest Young Things did with Fred Thomas right before his solo tour. They talked about what mixing with Drew Vandenberg was like, how he went in with zero expectation for success, and how he recently quit his day job at AllMusic to record bands. Read the full thing HERE.