Though I know for a fact that some of my fans would be happy for me to do anything that's going to help me be successful, namely to go to a major label, and I thank them for that, there'd be a lot of people who I think wouldn't be so happy with that change, and when I DO get dropped, then where would I be?
Ted LeoI love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.
Ted LeoI actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.
Ted LeoWhen you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm sure you've experienced this yourself - it's not that every night is not it's own thing. It is.
Ted LeoThe obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented.
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