It also has the purpose of allowing me to be comfortable playing in front of people. Sitting there by yourself with your guitar and playing is a whole different experience than doing it with people sitting around you. It just allows you to gain that relationship with other people while you're playing, and it's all about relationships. No, I don't really fit the mold of the typical psychologist by any means. In fact, I think that's what popular music is all about, stepping out of the mold and gracefully defying people's expectations.
People project what they want to see.
They might see me as a homeless person, although I don't really look that part because I take care of my personal hygiene and try to dress nicely. I don't really fit that, so then they try to go somewhere else in their experience. Being a psychologist is really all about experimenting. So this is like a big experiment. People have this idea of who you are, and when they find out differently, it blows away their stereotypes and frees their minds.