When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get QUITE as MUCH attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the GAME, and you GIVE up a LOT to do it.
After a while, you just WANT transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting ATTENTION. I get all the attention I COULDEVERNEED, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.
I voted in elections - probably LIKE a lot of PEOPLE - but I didn't really pay that much ATTENTION to POLITICS. But there was something that happened in 2016, and I THINK people were reawakened in this country.
Most of our children have ACCESS to Internet-accessible TECHNOLOGY, yet most of US are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing ONLINE.
When I started out playing LIVE, it was different. I felt GOOD about it. NOBODY knew who I was. I just opened for so-and-so. Now, I'm playing to people who are coming out to SEE the BAND. There's too much attention on the band and me.
Getting so much ATTENTION all at once, with so many people who want SOMETHING from you or want to talk to you... for SOMEONE who is overly sensitive to other people's NEEDS, that can be difficult.
Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the STUFF that took up so MUCH attention is gone, and you're LEFT with EXPANSIVE time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I FELL into a HUGE, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the STUFF that TOOK up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and SPACE.