00:00 As creators, what is it like when you do hear
00:02 that your music has really helped someone in a hard time
00:07 when it's so hard to think positively?
00:10 It makes you focus in on the thing that you're actually doing.
00:12 So there's lots of noise around the actual art of making something,
00:16 making music, making film, making TV, whatever it is.
00:19 But when a person has taken the time to listen,
00:23 to be there, meet you where you're at,
00:26 meet you where you were when you made the thing,
00:29 and take that with them in their daily life,
00:32 and use it as a tool to help them get through whatever they're going through,
00:36 you're a part of their lives.
00:39 You've made something that sticks with them,
00:42 that they get to carry with them.
00:44 And that is possibly one of the most incredible honours you can have.
00:48 So that anything else is just not important.
00:53 That is the important thing,
00:55 making things that people can hang on to
00:59 when there's nothing else to hang on to.
01:00 I think to refocus whenever it feels like everything else is out of focus on that,
01:05 I think it's really special.
01:08 If I'm honest, I don't know that you could have told me when I was 15, 16
01:13 that I'd be here,
01:14 that I could make music and have people listen to it.
01:17 It was like a pioneer's guide dream, you know?
01:20 -I feel the same. -So when people...
01:21 I feel completely the same.
01:23 I thought it was as unrealistic as a cartoon on TV.
01:27 I would watch artists and I'd be like, "Oh, my God, imagine doing something like that."
01:32 But never, ever thinking that that was even a possibility.
01:35 That doing this, sitting here, making music, writing songs,
01:40 playing them out, connecting with people, going on tour,
01:43 connecting one-to-one with people in a room.
01:45 It's such a profound experience.
01:46 I think about this a lot, John, in your Grammy speech a few years ago.
01:51 You said, "I show up every day,
01:53 I make music every day because it's a spiritual practice for me."
01:57 I think about that all the time and that's totally what it is.
01:59 If I don't write every day or create something,
02:02 I don't feel like myself, I don't feel fulfilled.
02:04 It doesn't matter if I put it out.
02:06 It's just something that you need to do,
02:09 just breathing or eating.
02:11 -That's what it feels like. -I feel more anxious.
02:13 Completely. I feel so anxious.
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