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When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.