You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.

Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.