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Casey: So you’re a few weeks away from your fourth world tour supporting your new album.  What’s that like?

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Rylan: We’ve already sold out every single show that’s been announced, and we’re adding more.  I’m looking forward to it.  Touring is great man.  You get out there and play your music and the crowd is singing along to every word.  It’s a high.  One that I’ll never get tired of.  I’d tour the rest of my life if the fans keep buying the albums.

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Casey:  The songs that you’ve written for your new album, Deeper Than Dark, you’ve said were written in a darker time of your life, adding to the “soul” of the album.  What did you mean by that?

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Rylan (laughing): Did I say that?  F*ck, I must’ve been off my *ss when I did that interview.   Does an album even have a soul?  If it did, ours are all going straight to hell, I’ll tell you that now.  I don’t look to the heavens for inspiration on my song writing.  I go into writing each new album with the idea that this is the one that I can retire off of.  But I have pretty high standards for what retirement looks like.  I’ve gotten used to a pretty rich lifestyle, and I don’t plan on dying young, so I’ve got a lot of work left to do yet. 

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Casey: The songs you’ve written seem to have more emotion behind them than what you’ve written in previous albums.  Everything and Everyone for example, has dark undertones and an ominous chorus. 

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Rylan: Does it?  I might have been in a bad mood when I wrote that one, I suppose.  It really has no meaning behind it, which amuses the hell out of me when people try to read into it.  The songs I write really don’t mean anything, I just like the way they sound and I write it down and we record it.  There’s really nothing more to it than that.  People like to create a story behind it, you know?  Like that there’s a woman that I’ve been seeing secretly or something like that.  It’s all rumors mate.  You can’t believe everything you hear.  But if it makes you like the song more, then imagine what you want, buy the album and come to the show. 

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Casey: There are a lot of rumors about you that go around the media.  Do you think that has to do with the fact that you don’t talk about your personal life? 

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Rylan: I’m not paid to talk about my personal life.  I’m paid to make music.  The rest is just what the media and the public has made up.  They believe what they want to believe.

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Casey: One of those long-standing rumors that never seems to die is that you have a daughter.  Is there any truth to that?

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Rylan: It’d be hard as hell to pull off being a good parent with my lifestyle, wouldn’t it?  It’s funny, JT has about a million kids out there – I’m sure he’s populated half of America with them – and no one really bothers him with that question.  But everyone’s hung up about whether or not I have one?  It’s a boring question.  Let’s talk about guitars.  I’ve got a million of those.  Ask me about guitars and JT about offspring.  That’d make for a better interview, Love.

 

Part 2 continues Casey Fox's exclusive interview with 7 Year Coma’s Rylan Porter in next month’s edition of Rock & Raw Magazine.