Big Shows Are More Like Events And

To Maintain A Consistency When People Come To See The Band Takes A Lot Of Work; It Takes A Lot Of Discipline. I Go To The Studio Every Day And Sing And Play. I Never Did That When I Was, Like, 30. I'd Probably Have A Drink And Walk On - And See What Comes Out. But Now If There's Ten Albums' Worth Of Material People Are Coming To Hear Some Of, And They've Paid Money For A Ticket, You Become A Different Person When You Go On And You Want To Give The Best Show You Can. You Want To Be Better At What You Do.

The Culture's Changed Massively. The Kids Are Different, With The Phones And Stuff. Even If You Like A Song, You Don't Really Know Who The Artists Are, It's A Lot More Faceless, It's A Lot Less Tribal. When We Were Growing Up It Was Much More Tribal - It Was Rock, It Was Grunge. Now People Like Songs, [but] They Don't Necessarily Know The Song's Origins. I Don't Know How You Would Feel Angry At The World, Or Distressed, Because Most People Are Constantly Distracted Or Consumed.

When You Are On Tour In The Uk It Takes A Few Hours To Get Anywhere. A Lot Of The Time You Can Have A Beer, Close Your Eyes For Two Minutes, And Then You Are There. In The U.s. It Is Much More Like A Road Trip As All The Cities Are So Spread Apart.

Every Song I've Written, It's About What I've Gone Through, Good Or Bad. It Kind Of Comes Out Of Me, And I'm Grateful For That. I've Got Friends Who Are Back Home Who've Got No Way To Express That, And They're Kind Of In A Different Position In Life. It's Alarming To Me That I've Written Something On My Bedroom Floor When I Was 19 Or Something, And Then There's 50,000 People That Know The Words, And They've Got A Similar Feeling. If You Thought About It Too Much, Your Head Would Blow Up.

There's A Good Sarcasm And A Camaraderie That Comes After Being In A Band. And We've Known Each Other Forever. We've Never Been A Band That Fought Or Argued. As A Songwriter, I'm Really Happy That The Boys Support Me And Contribute And That, But I've Always Wanted To Be Under The Band Stereophonics.