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

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

Audiences are audiences.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

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

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.