Ultimately, I feel good about the idea of other people experiencing and singing the music. Well, I think that I always am considering what being an artist means in the world that we live in. And how I can be useful as an artist in the world. It seems now that it's very, very important to affirm the imagination, mental freedom, creativity, and following your own path. All these qualities can get lost very easily in the society that we live in.
Live performance is a unique experience.
It's really one of the only communal group experience that we have, other than going to church where there is an interaction between human beings. I think that what art can do is to slow you down enough so that you really become more aware of reality. In that sense, art becomes a prototype or template for the richness of experience in the world that we're living in. And I think emotionally, because of the overload of speed and the kind of fragmentation that we live with and the density of information, I think that our nervous systems start numbing out. And in a way I think, if you have art that really has a certain power or vision, it becomes a way of getting in touch again.