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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?
All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
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.
Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.