In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.
Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.