Jessie: So off the record, what do you think of Seattle so far?
Dallas: I think that's a pretty on-the-record question.
Kelly: Yeah, how do you like Seattle?
Dallas I like it good!
Kelly: Have you been around the city?
Dallas: I've been around it many times, yeah.
Kelly: Well.. yeah.. I've seen you.. a few times. (laughs)
Dallas: Although yesterday when we flew in we stayed at a place that's right near the Space Needle. It was the first time I've actually seen the Space Needle up close.
Kelly: Did you go up it?!
Dallas: No.
Kelly: Ohh why not? The top spins...
Dallas: Yeah but I've got the CN tower in Toronto. It's like the thing that everybody tries to copy. It's the tallest -- well there's a building now in China that is taller but it was the world's tallest free-standing building.
Kelly: Oh that's awesome.

Dallas (looking at Jessie's lagging computer): What, are you paused?
Jessie: No it's just being really slow!
Dallas: K you get over closer. (Puts his arms around boths of us and pulls us in so we are all on the same screen)
Kelly: Okay now I am nervous.

Everyone messes around with the computers for a bit

Jessie: Okay let's do an intro!
Dallas: Okay. (pause) Hi.
Kelly: Hi. (laughs)
Dallas: This is us.
Kelly: It's us. This is Rain City Ambience.
Dallas: Okay, this is Rain City Ambience and Dallas.
Jessie: Dallas Green of City and Colour and Alexisonfire.
Dallas: Hi.
Kelly: Hi. So what is the-- I don't know where I'm supposed to look at you--
Dallas: First of all can we discuss the reflection of the computers in my glasses? (laughs) Look at that.
Jessie: Should have brought that video camera...
Dallas: No this is good! This is way cooler. Way more fun.

Kelly: So what is the best compliment you've ever received about your music?
Dallas: Wow. Well there's lots of good ones. I wouldn't necessarily say this is the best one, but one of the best things is just the fact that people come and listen. You know what I mean? That's like the best compliment you can ask for, especially as a person who is just trying to make honest music in a world full of pop culture.. Like the pop culture phenomenon that is the paparazzi and American Idol and all that stuff. It's all such flash-in-the-pan type stuff, but it's huge. But I think that the best compliment for me is that people actually care.

Kelly: So what do you think is the reason for your success?
Dallas: I really don't know.
Kelly: You don't know? You're just.. successful?
Dallas: No I mean, I wouldn't call myself successful. I just happen to be able to play and people come listen. I don't know, I don't really know what 'successful' is these days.
Kelly: Well how do you define success?
Dallas: I think it's the same kind of thing-- I define success by the fact that I can continue to go to different cities every night with my guitar and sing and people will come and watch, you know?
Kelly: Yeah, totally. Well, it just seems like you've gotten a lot of media attention lately; like I saw you featured on Myspace.. You're getting big. How do you stay so grounded?
Dallas: Because I don't really think that highly of myself.
Kelly: Oh.. Well why not?
Dallas: Well I think that people who are creating things and thinks they are good, usually aren't. But if you can look at something that you've created and say "that's okay, but I think I can do better," then I think that is the best way to look at things-- especially songs, because I think if you continue songwriting, you always want to be able to outdo yourself.
Kelly: Jeez, that's like our next question, you're building right into it!
Dallas: Okay, sorry!
Kelly and Jessie: Noo you can keep going!
Dalls: Makes cutting motion with his hand Why don't you just ask the next question?

Kelly: Alright, so since you're always trying to write a song that's better than the last, which song off Bring Me Your Love is just that? Which are you most proud of?
Dallas: Right now my favorite song off the record is number 6, What Makes a Man. That's my jam, that one. I don't know why, I just like the way it turned out.
Kelly: Is that the last song you wrote?
Dallas: No, I don't think so... It was one of the last ones but when I demoed it on my computer it was way different. I'm going to re-release my record with all of the demo versions.
Kelly: I have some of those.. I have Sleeping Sickness I think..
Dallas: Yeah, probably, but you probably have the ollllld version. I'm talking about all the demos that I did for the record on the bus with Alexis and stuff, like in the back of the bus. BUT, when I demoed What Makes a Man it was way different, but when I got in the studio I ended up sort of stripping it down and playing it the way I did.
Kelly: Yeah, it's definitely more raw, especially compared to Sometimes; the whole album's completely different.
Dallas: Yep!
Kelly: Jessie did you want to ask any questions? Sorry I've taken the spotlight from you..
Jessie take the paper
Dallas: What happened to them being in your head?
Jessie Hands paper back to Kelly Alright, so your album is called Bring Me Your Love. Who do you want to bring you their love do you have anyone bringing your their love, or is just everybody in general?
Dallas: Well I named it after a Charles Bukowski story that I had read.
Kelly: Who's Charles Bukowski?
Dallas: Charles Bukowski is a fantastic author who once was. He's written great books such as Ham on Rye, Woman, Things Like That, Post Office.. he's very good. But I think that it just sort of suited the chorus of the last song on the record very well.. It just made perfect sense in that context, and I just really wanted to name a record after a line in a song, not necessarily after the name of a song. I've always wanted to do that, and yeah, I think it's just sort of a general question to everyone -- bring me the love, you know?

Kelly: So where do you belong?
Dallas: I don't know!
Kelly: That's like the next line in the song...
Dallas: Yep, "No I am not where I belong."
Kelly: Well then where do you belong?
Dallas: Well that's why I'm asking the person to shine the light and guide me home- to where I belong.
Kelly: There you go, perfect answer. (laughs)
Dallas: Thank you.
Jessie: ..you belong on this couch
Dallas: Yep, I belong split between two computers.
Kelly: I know it's like two different interviews going on at the same time..

High five party commences...

Kelly: Okay, so what is the biggest thing you've learned about life while being on the road?
Dallas: Well, there's two different types of life when you're on the road; there's the life on the road and there's the life at home. So I've learned that life at home does not stay the same as it did when you left. I always kind of wish that I could hit pause on life at home and come back and everything would be the same.. but it's never the same. And I've also learned that life on the road can be very boring. There's so much like...
Kelly: Party all the time! Well, not you..
Dallas: Yeah, there's so much downtime-- I think that's why a lot of people end up partying (laughs), because there's nothing to do a lot of the time. You're just in a town that you've been six or seven times, and it's the same club you've been at six or seven times.
Kelly: Have you been here [to Chop Suey]?
Dallas: Actually no, so it's totally exciting.

Kelly: What is your biggest fear in life?
Dallas: I think I mostly fear whether or not my songs are any good..
Someone starts drum checking and everyone loses track of the question...
Kelly: So... people not liking your songs?
Dallas: Well no, not necessarily people not liking them.. Just me, or not knowing whether or not what I've written is good, and just having this sort of constant thing going on.. so I think that that is my biggest fear; I don't know...
Kelly: Makes sense...
Dallas: Maybe losing my voice would be a bummer, but I don't really think about that.
Kelly: Well yeah, that's kind of a fear of the moment..
Dallas: No I mean losing my voice like, forever! I really like singing.

Kelly: So what is your biggest pet peeve?
Dallas: Ohh.. Bad drivers!
Kelly: There you go.
Dallas: Ugh! Just put your signal on if you're gonna turn!
Kelly: Laughs I know! Why do you have to cut me off on the freeway when it's raining?
Jessie: I'm sorry I did that...
Kelly: Yeah Jessie why did you do that?! You got anymore questions in your head?

Jessie: Do you really have a sleeping sickness?
Dallas: Yeah, I don't sleep very much at all. Me and sleep are not friends. It's kind of always been that way though, so that's where I got the idea of the sleeping sickness because I wasn't sleeping very much.
Jessie: Do you ever get really really really tired and sleep for three days straight?
Dallas: No.. What happens is I won't sleep very much for three or four days and then I have a night of pretty good sleep, and then go back to not sleeping. It's kind of a bummer.
Kelly: It seems to be working out for you.
Dallas: Eh, it's okay. Yawns I'm yawning right now as I'm talking about it.
Jessie: It's because we're boring..
Dallas: No it's because I'm actually tired! Come onnn. How can the first time I've ever done something in my life, like this (referring to the computer situation), be boring?
Kelly: Ohh yeah.

Kelly: Okay, it's not hard to see you have your fair share of tattoos.. Which one has the most significant meaning to you?
Dallas: Probably the one on my neck that I got for my grandfather who passed away when I was ten years old. It's an anchor with the name of his submarine from when he was in the war. It's probably my favorite one.

Jessie: So when talking about What Makes a Man, what do you think makes a man?
Dallas: Well if you listen to the song...
Kelly: Yeah Jessie, if you listen to the song!!
Dallas: No no no, that's not what I'm saying... It's more like saying what makes a man do all of the things that I ask. Like what makes a man spend his life in disguise? Or what makes a man pray before he's about to die? So it's not like what makes a man like.. a universal question, it's kind of like what makes a man do all of these things? And I think it's kind of a question I'm asking more of myself. So I'm saying I think I might know, but I don't. That's kind of just me analyzing myself as a person.

Sleepercar begins soundchecking and we start messing with the computers..