Yes, I love it! I fell like everybody I meet here is a musician and not just a mediocre musician, but a really good musician. Half the houses in town are recoding studios, everybody is a songwriter or a guitar player. I used to think that it was much more a country town, like country music, but there are so many different musicians living here now, that it’s kind of like everything. There is this great, indie/folk/Americana theme. We have gotten to know a lot of folks and it’s been absolutely wonderful for us both creatively and personally.
I think it’s a lot easier when you’re hanging around musicians ‘cause they get your lifestyle and the relationship. If there is somebody who’s working a
nine to five job, that you are trying to have a friendship with, and you keep leaving for months at a time (laugh) people just don’t know when you’re available to hang out or whatever. Here everybody knows ‘cause everybody doing it, you just check somebody’s tour schedule and see when they’re getting back into town and then you give them a call and go grab a coffee or whatever.
That must be difficult, to try and have a social life while building the sort of career that takes you away so much. Do you manage to have a personal life or a girlfriend?
No, on all accounts. I feel like I was kind of built to play music and tour. My body kind of lends itself to being on the road and playing music, my whole make-up, it’s how I function. I love being on the road, I love being in the studio. I don’t feel like I don’t have a life, especially here; it’s a lot easier to have a life ‘cause you can hang-out with people and then take off and that’s kind of the whole deal.
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