I Play When I Want to Play.
You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.
I think the consistency comes from the parts.
I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland. Songs about being young again. I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.
Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.
What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore.
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.
Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.