Jack
song character singing
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.
people being-positive trying
People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
cousin attitude interesting
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
nice thinking way
The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.
taken majority phrases
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
real thinking fake
What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.
thinking boys pie
I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.
dream mean thinking
I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.
mom kids thinking
I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.
song writing people
If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.
cities people able
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.
hurt home people
I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.
successful trying firsts
It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
musician hard
It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.