I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.
Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.
I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.
I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.
When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'
When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.