“It is a job, at times. There are bits of it that become more of a job and bits of it that never change and still have joy in them. The job part is usually getting through the red tape that people keep throwing at you, and dealing with idiots, of which there seem to be an inordinate amount! With recording, it depends on how smoothly it’s going. I’ve had it after three takes, and then it becomes a job. I’m a very impatient bastard. That’s my greatest failing.”
“Rock’n’roll isn’t a job. It is life. If you break a leg under a bus and lose it, you don’t just shoot yourself because you lost your leg. You make do with one leg and a plastic one. You survive. The name of the game is survival. I’ll survive through bad PAs, I’ll survive through my bass giving out, I’ll survive through anything. No matter how much or how little you’ve been paid, it’s still a damn sight better life than a plumber in Cleethorpes’. Which was probably the choice…”
“I find rehearsing a job, but the playing isn’t. The playing’s great. I just love to be out there on the road. I probably would have run away and been a pirate or joined a circus in another time. But now you run away and you join a rock’n’roll band, don’t you?”
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