Texas Interview

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00:00I hope when people see Texas live that they go, they really love what they do.

00:06You know, the thing is, it's like, it's easy to be miserable.

00:10I remember the first time standing on stage at Dundee University in the bar,

00:15literally hanging on to my guitar for grim death thinking,

00:17oh my God, please don't make eye contact with me, please don't.

00:21And it's, you know, it's a skill that you learn.

00:26It's a skill that you learn, you learn to like, you've been so lucky to have opened up for so many great artists in the past,

00:34whether it's Paul McCartney, John Mellencamp, Robert Plant, Brian Adams,

00:39all these guys that play big, big, big stadiums.

00:42And you suddenly go from playing like a bar, you're on a stadium stage,

00:46you realise that there's so much distance between you and the audience that you need to do things.

00:50And then you see them doing things.

00:52I mean, for me, the greatest was John Mellencamp.

00:53I learnt so much of John Mellencamp.

00:56We toured America with him years ago.

00:59And he dragged me on stage every night to sing with him.

01:03And just watching the way that he worked his band and worked the audience,

01:09it was like, wow, it was real showmanship.

01:12And I was like, wow, that's a separate skill.

01:15That's something else that comes into it.

01:17And that is what we're there for.

01:19We're there to entertain.

01:20You know, we're not there to stand there and stare at our shoes.

01:24You know, fuck off home if that's like what you're going to do.

01:26I'm a bit like, it's really important to...

01:30For me, it's about having everything.

01:34And if you can learn those skills and work on those skills,

01:40you know, you've got to make the great records.

01:42You've got to write the great songs.

01:43You've got to do the great show.

01:45You've got to do the interviews and do them well.

01:47And not sit with your face, tripping you or being like,

01:50oh, I don't want to be here.

01:51If you don't want to be here, don't be here.

01:53Do you know what I mean?

01:53Don't do it.

01:54But don't sit there like a miserable fuck.

01:56You know, it's one of those ones.

01:57Yeah.