I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.
There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.
I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.
There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.