Reynolds: I think that once I got home and took time off the road, for all of us, we were able to for the first time have perspective. There's one song on Evolve, "Believer," that immediately caught my attention. And that was scary for me, in a lot of ways. So a lot of the music is kind of speaking about sometimes searching and hoping for answers, but coming up empty-handed. But I think in doing that, I ended up getting even more lost and feeling like there were no answers. I thought, well, if I invest myself, I thought I would find something. So then I went on a mission, because I wanted to believe. And for me, I really had a hard time believing in anything, even a God.īut I was infatuated with it and I would read a lot and study a lot, just because I wanted to believe.
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I grew up in a large family - eight boys, one girl - and everybody went on missions and everybody seemed to be super full of faith. And in fact, I really struggled with believing in Mormonism since I was young. But as far as faith - it never came easy for me. I think since I was young, spiritual things have always been interesting to me. Reynolds: I wouldn't say religious references as much as just a spiritual reference. The Record Hearing Devotion In Pop's Details And I couldn't help but notice the religious references that are in the music. And yeah, it was really hard for us.īoth of you have a shared religious background: You both grew up as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the Mormon church. And I think that's something a lot of people deal with. It's hard to feel like a manly man, and to feel validated as a man, and admit that you're struggling with something that's eating you from the inside. Sermon: There is like the stigma attached to it, you know. I wondered whether your being artists helped that or hurt that? I mean, part of your job as artists is to articulate for people what other people cannot. I do think for a lot of men it is hard to talk about. And so, I don't know, even if we tried to hide things from each other I think it would not work for very long. You're with these people more than anyone else, and more than you've ever been with even your family. Wayne Sermon: I don't really know how you could possibly hide anything from your band members.
It was a tricky thing, but we're all really close and they were with me through it a 100 percent. It was cool because we were able to speak up with each other about meeting a therapist and what was that like. Wayne has also dealt with depression for years, and so both of us went through it together in a lot of ways. It was probably the worst that I'd ever had and it got to a point where I really had to go seek help, and I decided to talk about it because I think that it's something that a lot of people hide. But I think it was really overwhelming for me and I ended up kind of going through a year of really heavy depression. All of these really beautiful, wonderful things happened. But would typically come in three- to six-month bouts, and after the record came out, I think so much happened at once. Reynolds: You know, I've dealt with it since I was young.
You've been very open about the depression that hit at the height of when you were touring. We'd been touring straight at that point for - I wanna say, seven years straight? So yeah, I think we just all needed it to reconnect with normal life and home and family and just to get grounded. Michel Martin: How did your sabbatical come about? Was it an agreement that all of you made that, after a certain point, you'd jump off the train for a minute?ĭan Reynolds: I think it was a necessity.
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