Dec 27, 2003 19:03
I can get the job done on stage. I can hit the high notes, sing in the right key, play the riffs and make you want more. I can give you just enough of me for you to know I'm someone worth watching.
I don't know how well I do with the rest of it. I'm really shy, actually. Elisha knows it, and she puts up with me. At shows I play and I go backstage, change shirts and sit and listen to the rest of the bands. Pete's the kind of guy that likes meeting the kids and signing everything. He likes being fawned over and gushed at and thank fucking god, I think I was out there two seconds before I ran back behind stage.
I'm awkward in interviews and in social situations and not to say I don't love what I do but I love playing and that's really all I'm good at. Anything else gives me heart palpitations or something. I'm getting better at it, but really the idea of everyone looking at me and knowing things about me makes me nauseous and I'm generally a really private person.
I guess I'm just trying to explain why I only really talk to Elisha or Louie. I really want to get to know all the people that are important to my girlfriend though, it's just going to take some time for me to work up the nerve.