Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I used practically all the money I had available.

We play to houses that are 15,000 to 17,000 people [compared to Broadway shows with an audience of 2,000 or 3,000]. It's a different style of entertainment. I trained in the theater to sing to the back of the house. Here, it's impossible to do that.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.