David Duchovny on New Album Prince of Pieces, New Movie Soapbox, and Why Comedy Needs Movie Theaters: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms David Duchovny has spent the last decade making the phrase “actor-turned-musician” increasingly useless. His fourth album, Prince of Pieces, finds him returning to songs that have accumulated over years rather than chasing whatever version of himself happens to be standing in the studio that week. Speaking with Kyle Meredith, Duchovny digs into the record’s long gestation, the decade-old “Stay on the Train,” the creative shift that began around his 50th birthday, and the increasingly blurry lines between his music, novels, screenwriting, and upcoming films like Soapbox and See You When I See You. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. For Duchovny, songwriting also offers permission to use familiar language in ways his fiction often doesn’t. “We don’t demand kind of rigorous originality from our movies or from our songs. We want a commonality. We want to feel a history,” he explains. That instinct runs through “Stay on the Train,” which he describes as a collection of deliberately familiar father-child images built around one piece of advice: keep moving even when the scenery changes. Songwriting, he a...