Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.
Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
