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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's more to being a musician than just making music.
I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.
I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.
At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.
You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.