When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.
Matt NathansonI have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.
Matt NathansonThe only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.
Matt NathansonI like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.
Matt Nathanson