A: I'm not sure it would be true to say I welcomed it, but I had less of a prescribed notion about what it was going to be, and I just let it happen and stayed open to it.
I noticed how easy it is for the ego to get all excited when it gets all this attention, and it jumps up and down. Every once in a while you have to sit it down and remind it that it's all a load of nonsense, that it's just a game. But it would be nice, and this is something I'm working on, to be able to remember when I'm standing onstage and there's an audience clapping, without any disrespect to the audience, to realize that it means nothing.
If people are saying you're wonderful, you're great, really you're not. Q: It's a very human need, to get that sort of attention for your art. Even Daniel Day-Lewis came back. Everybody comes back. A: I can't speak for Daniel, but for me it was certainly not a decision to come back for the attention.
One of the things I have to do is work on being more comfortable with the attention that comes. One of the reasons I came back was a desire to express — it's like a painter, and their hand wants to paint things, and there's a paintbrush and a canvas in front of them.
It's going to be very hard for their hand not to pick up a brush if that's in their nature. For me, it's in my nature to want to express things that happen inside emotionally, and then also to share that. It would be lovely to be able to do that, then switch it off once you're finished.
I'm at a level where I can do that. I don't get recognized, generally speaking. O arrived at a formative time in my life, enchanting and immersing me as I pored over every lyric and intimate sonic detail. His follow-up 9 had its moments, but the sad sack shtick began to wear thin as it became trickier to ignore how formulaic his songs could be.
Rustic chords on the piano or guitar slowly building from hushed introductions to intensely angry or melancholic climaxes. Then came the self-sabotage. Bored of his own songs and success, Rice sacked his band, his relationship with partner and professional foil Lisa Hannigan collapsed, then disappeared. When he resurfaced eight years later, with the Rick Rubin-produced My Favourite Faded Fantasy, it was to relatively little fanfare.
And yet, there I was, part of a packed auditorium enjoying being carried away by songs that once occupied a special place in our something lives. They no longer move me the same way, but they still matter greatly for the fact they once did. After realising he was the "biggest carbon emitter of all my friends", Rice has spent years chipping away at a new album project that reckons with his environmental impact.
Sending us into the night with 'Trusty and True' - a song about forgiveness, not fury - shows his songwriting is shifting towards newfound maturity and zen. Please choose a screen name. This name will appear beside any comments you post. Your screen name should follow the standards set out in our community standards. Screen Name Selection. Only letters, numbers, periods and hyphens are allowed in screen names.
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