That`s the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn`t have those things we`d just be numb.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you`re going to open your eyes at some point, and it`s gone.
Or if I have my head in the results, I can`t work with what I have, because I`m trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you`re screwed, nothing will work.
That`s the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn`t have those things we`d just be numb.
