I Leave For The Show At Least

Performance-wise, You Really Need To Be Down In The Trenches; You Need To Do The Hard Work, For A Lot Of Reasons: To Build Yourself As A Performer, To Get A Sense Of The Audience, To Work Hard And To Wonder, 'do I Really Want To Do This?'

I Remember Times When I Was At Shows And The Person Onstage Locked Eyes With Me. And In That Moment, Everything Was Right With The World. I Think That's Part Of My Job, To Create These Thousands Of Moments Every Night. And For The Rest Of Their Life, They Can Say, 'you Guys Looked At Me,' Or 'you Sweated On Me,' Or 'i Got Your Gum.'

Well You Know I've Been In That Place Too Where You Worry About What Everybody Thinks Of You, Am I Popular, Do People Care, Are They Looking At Me, All That Stuff. That's A Drag, Man. Having To Worry About Fitting In, Am I Cool Enough To Anything.

I Think What People See In Me Is One Slice Of Who I Am. It Does Permeate My Life In The Sense That I Don't Like To Be Told What To Do, Or How To Be, Or How I Can Do It. But I'm Probably A Lot Tamer Than People Would Expect.

Why There Aren't People Out There Willing To Have Fun Playing Rock 'n' Roll. I Just Don't Get It.