People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.
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In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
The music became secondary to being rock stars.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.
There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.
I think everybody wants to be a rock star.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.