A performer needs and craves a live audience.

Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.