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Speaker 1: Cody Simpson, you beautiful man.

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Speaker 2: We're good buddy, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Aren't you a little creative little beast when you've been

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Speaker 1: in isolation? Cody still writing, writing a couple of songs,

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Speaker 1: and you've got some poems as well.

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Speaker 2: You've got to keep yourself occupied, don't you, big fella?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, always all you around, no matter what the case.

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Speaker 2: Can we actually, well, let's listen to a little bit

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Speaker 2: of Captain's Dance.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, there, whip. This is Captain's Dance by Cody. He's

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Speaker 1: off to do the devils Dance.

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Speaker 2: Well with the man, Cody.

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Speaker 1: You know what, we're the first time that we saw

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Speaker 1: you performers at the GQ Awards years and years ago,

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Speaker 1: you performed Jeff Buckley's Lilac Wine.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember that night? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I remember that night, well, well the first part of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Mate.

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Speaker 1: So you've released a couple of songs, but you've got

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Speaker 1: a new poetry book out Prince Neptune as well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: have you always been I know, Michael Hutchins, you used

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Speaker 1: to do this. He used to write poems and then

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Speaker 1: the Farres brothers would come in with the music and

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Speaker 1: the production and he would just basically have songs written

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Speaker 1: straight away just from the palms he wrote. So is

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Speaker 1: that the way that you is that your songwriting process?

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Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's often how it goes for me too,

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Speaker 3: Like I'll often bring in something just written down on

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Speaker 3: a picture of paper and bring it into my band

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Speaker 3: I'm working with, or producers or whatever and just have

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Speaker 3: something whether it's already put to music or just you know,

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Speaker 3: just just rhymed and sort of laid out. That's that's

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Speaker 3: kind of how I work as well.

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Speaker 4: So, Cody, is it part of joining your family now

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Speaker 4: that you have to perform solo in front of Billy

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Speaker 4: Ray and he either approves whether you can date's daughter

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Speaker 4: or not.

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Speaker 3: He's kind of the final gore at.

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Speaker 1: The part.

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Speaker 3: You have.

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Speaker 1: You performed with Billy Ray himself because he joined you

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Speaker 1: on a song before Cody we did.

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Speaker 3: We did something a few months back at this like

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Speaker 3: Homeless Shelter in La Christmas were playing Christmas songs. But

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Speaker 3: we've played together. But yeah, he's awesome.

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Speaker 1: You went on Miley's She's doing a bit of a

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Speaker 1: she's doing an insta sort of interview show, and you

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Speaker 1: went on there and read out a couple of poems.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately she was annoying you in the background. Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: was yelling out in the background. Here's a bit of

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Speaker 1: it here. Is it hard to get creative when Miley's

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Speaker 1: yelling at you in the background?

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Speaker 2: Cody that actually helps? Doesn't like a personal work well?

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Speaker 2: Under pressure?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: I need to ask this. With the world in lockdown

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Speaker 4: and everybody you know, told to stay at home, a

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Speaker 4: lot of are there a lot of artists you know,

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Speaker 4: talking saying, hey, we've got this time in her hands. Now,

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Speaker 4: we can't tour, let's record some stuff.

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Speaker 2: We've got to work together.

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Speaker 4: Here, because I would almost like, if the world goes

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Speaker 4: into lockdown for six months, in your at home, you

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Speaker 4: almost feel the pressure of, you know, needing to maximize

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Speaker 4: that time in your in your craft. Is that the

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Speaker 4: feeling amongst the music community?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, it's I'm lucky enough to have a

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Speaker 3: little studio set up at home, so I'm kind of

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Speaker 3: trying to take advantage of that right now. But it's

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Speaker 3: definitely tough when things are so up in the air,

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Speaker 3: because even with like, you know, the live music business

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Speaker 3: in general, it's like, even if all of a sudden

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Speaker 3: in a month, people you know, we're given the green light.

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Speaker 3: It's like people, I don't think people are going to

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Speaker 3: be rushing back immediately into crowds anyway. People think if

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Speaker 3: they're going to be sketched, you know. So it's kind

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Speaker 3: of like trying to figure out how to adapt to

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Speaker 3: a new way of you know. Unluckily now, like we

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Speaker 3: do have these platforms and we do have ways to

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Speaker 3: do it without necessarily going out into live performance venues.

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Speaker 3: But it's it's hard to think about where things are

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Speaker 3: headed and whether things will be the same for a

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Speaker 3: little while. But definitely trying to keep you know, which

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Speaker 3: is why I've been recording home and putting out these

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Speaker 3: couple songs this month. And you know, I didn't want

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Speaker 3: to postpone the book because I felt like it was

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Speaker 3: something people kind of needed at this time in a way.

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Speaker 3: You know, like I think people do look to music

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Speaker 3: and look to books and art and different things for

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Speaker 3: some kind of escapism during times like this.

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Speaker 2: So well, Cody, you know.

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Speaker 5: They're also looking to pets, aren't they, Because you guys

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Speaker 5: are one of the many people who have gone and

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Speaker 5: board a dog. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Love did a little puppy A ton of people

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Speaker 3: actually giving away dogs right now, you know, people under

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Speaker 3: financial stress, people giving dogs back to shelters, and these

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Speaker 3: shelters were becoming like really overwhelmed, especially here in La

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Speaker 3: So we went and got one and we've been trying

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Speaker 3: to trying to trade him.

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Speaker 5: Have you found any problems with it though? I mean,

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Speaker 5: Whips always talks about when he was a kid and

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Speaker 5: when the dog cries, how you just pig a buck

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Speaker 5: of cold water on it, And I just.

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Speaker 2: Think that's horrible.

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Speaker 5: But we think that's the only way you stopped a

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Speaker 5: puppy from crying. Is that the case.

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Speaker 3: I haven't tried that tactic yet. You get into that

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Speaker 3: point though, I'm just hearing strangely been like the best

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Speaker 3: I've ever had.

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Speaker 1: But you've got to maybe put a palm together about

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Speaker 1: Bow the German Shepherd.

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Speaker 2: I mean you could what the German Shepherd? You don't

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Speaker 2: know what you mean to me? Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In the next book, mate, well, the new.

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Speaker 2: Poetry book Prince Neptune. You can get it now. It

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Speaker 2: can be purchased on book Topia. Mate. We appreciate your

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Speaker 2: time and how busy R. Cody. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for coming on the show, bro and send all our

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Speaker 2: best to Maley, Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you guys,