If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.