Latest / Inside Country with Wayne D / One Of My Favorite Interviews Ever With Brothers Osborne
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- 0:01It's always a good day when I can get big old celebrities, music icons,
- 0:07rock stars in here, and then other days I got to settle for
- 0:10Brothers Osmond. Wonder where that was going? Damn, how do we get
- 0:19out of here? You paid for an hour at parking? Just hang out
- 0:23with me? John Tisa, how are you guys? How about your life
- 0:28is good? Man? We got y'all in here. We're talking new music.
- 0:32I'm going to jump right into the music creation thing because it feels like
- 0:36everybody's doing it different than they were five years ago, whether they're doing it
- 0:41faster, or they're more focused on one song versus a pile of songs or
- 0:46so. Over the five years, obviously streaming has changed that, social media
- 0:51has changed that, COVID change that. So what is different five years ago
- 0:56from how Brothers Osborne create music to now? I mean, there's been so
- 0:59many things put me in especially over ten years. You know, we first
- 1:02got signed, and you know, I think at least for us, I
- 1:06mean, what we're in the middle of doing now is we're releasing an EP
- 1:08out in response to just things changing and getting music out there faster. As
- 1:12a lot of people are releasing music a lot more often, and there's just
- 1:15so much to listen to and be heard. So on this you know,
- 1:19this EP we just put out, for instance, has two new tracks on
- 1:22it, but it's got two tracks from the last release we had that we
- 1:26thought just got overlooked. And most people don't even realize their re releases,
- 1:30which proves our point. There's so much music going on, So I think
- 1:33now we're going to try to change it up, try to be a little
- 1:36bit more on our feet with things and be able to put music out there
- 1:38faster because people like to consume stuff so fast. Now knowing that you can
- 1:45re release a song in the manner you just explained. You guys, anytime
- 1:49I've interacted with you or we've talked music or anything like that, like your
- 1:53heart and I don't want to I'm not talking ill on anybody else, but
- 1:56there's something about your heart being into things you create. Right, Does that
- 2:00make sense? Like every song feels like it means more to you than it
- 2:04Yeah, Well, you invest yourself into your art. I think every true
- 2:07artist does. And you know it's it's really hard because you put out an
- 2:12album let's say, eleven songs, and then if you're lucky. You get
- 2:15two of those songs on the radio and you start moving on to your next
- 2:19album writing and recording and stuff like that, and they're like, well,
- 2:21there are nine of those songs that I poured my heart out on. And
- 2:24it's not like you go, ah, this song is pretty cool, so
- 2:27let's just kind of half asset and move on to the next one. No,
- 2:29you treat everyone like they're the most important song to you. And I
- 2:32think that's just kind of how we're wired. We can't help it, you
- 2:37know. And I'll go back and listen to some songs that even our fans
- 2:40don't probably love as much as I do, and I think, man,
- 2:43I think this is really great. It's like hurts me to know that this
- 2:46song might never see the get the love it deserves. You know. It's
- 2:50like your children, you really love them like that. When it comes to
- 2:53putting out music. What is what's the one song that comes to mind when
- 2:58I say what song is meant the most that didn't connect the way you thought
- 3:01it did, or better yet, the song you did for you your fans
- 3:05first, right, But at the end of the day, what's the song
- 3:07that you did like, Hey, hope they love it, but this one's
- 3:10for me. There's I mean, I've been a couple of but I'll say,
- 3:14you know, the thing is, it's is And I guess we did
- 3:15get attention for it, but younger me was that way, you know,
- 3:20a song I would kind of a responsibility coming out. And then John's own
- 3:23personal trials and we realized that life isn't you know, it's kind of no
- 3:28one really gets a hall pass in this world, and it's difficult on us
- 3:30in so many ways. We're the hardest on ourselves always, and you know,
- 3:34we released that song. However, it wasn't a single for us,
- 3:36and as in our most highest stream song, but it also is a song
- 3:38that it means so much to a specific person. It won us our first
- 3:42Grammy Award, and there's so many It just was written from a place where
- 3:46we weren't thinking about what's going to be a hit, what's going to be
- 3:49a party. It was just like what do I emotionally need to get out
- 3:53and and say? And when it connects to people, it connects in a
- 3:57way that a lot of other songs don't own that really really deep level.
- 4:00But then there's also other songs that aren't as necessarily from an emotional place that
- 4:05we recorded a song called Weed, Whiskey and Willy that we knew would we
- 4:09work on a single it. You know, It's just we thought it was
- 4:11a cool country like we love always like having a tip of the hat to
- 4:15old like kind of more traditional country on our record, and that song really
- 4:18became like a crowd favorite if we get asked to play it all the time.
- 4:21Now, I would have never guessed it was for us. It was
- 4:24more kind of like, I think that we want to do this. I
- 4:26don't care what Nashville wants to hear. This is what we want to do.
- 4:30And it's interesting how sometimes that it's it ends up being the other way
- 4:32around. And then inversely, there's some times where I'm like, they're gonna
- 4:35love this and they don't, so, you know, and then you move
- 4:39on, what's what's the one song out of out of you know, you
- 4:43named a couple there, but what's one song that connected that you're still doing
- 4:46today that you're like every now and again, elbow yourself like, yeah,
- 4:49I mean, honestly, read Whiskey really is that one? I mean,
- 4:53when we have a set, it's pretty much for the most part, every
- 4:58song in this set has been some sort of single or it has had some
- 5:01attention to it. Most of the songs that we have built in our sets
- 5:05a radio singles, and that song Never Again, we never really spent time
- 5:11promoting it. It just took on a life of its own, and I
- 5:14think people kind of dig the old school six' eight country side of things.
- 5:18But it also, you know, it talks about the things that we
- 5:20love most, which is like old school country and drinking and smoking weed,
- 5:27and who doesn't love those three things? And you know, and that's just
- 5:30part of like us being honest as to who we are, especially who we
- 5:34were then don't smoke as much as I used to, And I don't know
- 5:40if it resonated with people, and there's a bit of nostalgia in it,
- 5:43and it gets some of the biggest responses out of any of our songs.
- 5:47Knowing how much heart you put into what you guys create and how things have
- 5:51changed over time, is there a song that you look back as the guys
- 5:56that you've grown into individually and together today, you look back at songs you
- 6:00put out like Brothers Osbourne today wouldn't have done that then, Yeah, Well,
- 6:06I think Rum is probably, you know, a good example of that,
- 6:09and it's just because we've changed so much our sound. You know,
- 6:13it's almost weird even playing that song and our seconds it sounds, so it's
- 6:16such an outlier, but it's also cool for that reason. I mean,
- 6:19I do, I do think it is a song though I think you could
- 6:23easily make an argument had we released that song now, it would have been
- 6:27a much bigger hit than it was then. And you know, when you're
- 6:30first starting out, that was like the first song that really introduced us to
- 6:31people. And quite often that's not usually the song that takes the artist at
- 6:35number one, but it is the first one that gets them known and gets
- 6:40them across the finish line with another song, and that was that song for
- 6:43us. However, people still like to hear it, and we still play
- 6:45it because it is fun. But it is a total outlier from the rest
- 6:47of the stuff that we've done since and we're currently doing now. But that's
- 6:53not to say I mean, if I heard it again, I don't know.
- 6:55I don't know. I don't know if we would record it or not.
- 6:56But there are some songs that I'm like, man, if we have
- 7:00if we could have released this now, it would be it would probably would
- 7:02have been a huge hit for us, knowing how intense you guys can be.
- 7:06And maybe that's not the right word, but how oh I can be
- 7:10intense? No, maybe not, John, I definitely can be intense with
- 7:13the writing process that that portion of the creation. Do you get offered songs
- 7:17a lot? Are you kind of like like we do it? We we
- 7:20could offered songs every now and again. I tell you it's it's funny because
- 7:26when people send us songs and it doesn't happen that often because we've written all
- 7:29of our songs, but it sounds like someone sometimes it sounds like someone tried
- 7:32to rewrite one of our songs that we put out, and like we don't
- 7:39really even do that ourselves. And I can see why they would think,
- 7:42like this could be a cool Brother's Osborne song, But I'm like, it
- 7:44kind of sounds likely in my fault, like we've kind of done that already.
- 7:47But lately we've been sent a few songs We're like, Okay, this
- 7:50is really cool. Maybe not one hundred percent for us, but I'm appreciating
- 7:54that we're getting to hear songs that are being written in a completely different way,
- 7:58and we were the people they in that process. So it is a
- 8:01high honor when it comes to an EP versus an album. I feel like
- 8:05we've talked to a lot of artists so far in twenty twenty four about EP
- 8:09versus like here's a full album? Is an EP like a break from like
- 8:13the work of a full album, or like, what's the difference for you
- 8:16guys on that part? Well, the Devin Sara would be, I mean,
- 8:20to do a full length record, it just takes a lot of time
- 8:22to get the material together. It also takes a lot of time to record
- 8:26it, get in edit it, do all the stuff you gotta do.
- 8:28I mean, it's very time consuming. And then when you do that,
- 8:33you're usually not going to put something out for another two or three years.
- 8:35And by the way, before you go into even by that time that's released,
- 8:39a lot of times you've recorded that a year before then and wrote it
- 8:43a year or two before that. So by the time you're hearing a song,
- 8:46it could be three or four years old, and then we got to
- 8:48wait another two or three years to put out another album, And so it
- 8:52can be a really huge swing in creativity there. And so for us to
- 8:56be able to put more music out are more frequently, maybe not as much
- 9:01music. Then we can kind of stay on something whatever we're currently feeling at
- 9:05that moment, whether it be lyrically or musically, and kind of we can
- 9:07keep adjusting and making however, we want to pivot at any point in time
- 9:11musically, and so that's kind of that's how it is for us. And
- 9:15I think for this we preempted on this record and we went and record our
- 9:18last one, and we recorded some tracks with the anticipation that we would release
- 9:22them in an EP later on, and so we want to our plane of
- 9:28now is to keep keep running on that. And you know, we've we've
- 9:31always prided ourselves and being making full length records that you'd want to listen to
- 9:35in front the back. But you know, we've done that four times now
- 9:37and I think we've proven that we can do that to our hopefully you know,
- 9:41to our fans and to us and and so now we just want to
- 9:46switch it up a little bit, you know, kind of stay on our
- 9:48toes a little and being a little bit more active in the creative aspect of
- 9:52it. Uh. The title is break Mine. That's the name of the
- 9:58song coming to country radio. How does that? How does that fit for
- 10:01where you guys are as brothers, as a band, as creators on the
- 10:07process, Like, how does this fit? Maybe you're not building a puzzle,
- 10:11but it feels like every artist is building a puzzle with their work,
- 10:13you know what I mean? Well, yeah, the kind of are I
- 10:15mean? If it like, if you listen to someone's work over time,
- 10:18chronologically, you'll hear how their writing has shifted. You'll hear how the music
- 10:22has shifted, how they're singing changes. But one of the cool things about
- 10:26this is it it's a little bit throwback to our first album, pawn Shop,
- 10:31unintentionally, but that's still a big part of who we are. If
- 10:35you kind of mash up like twenty one Summer and stay a little longer,
- 10:39this would be the song that you got And then those are two big songs
- 10:43in our sets. So we still perform to this day and they don't feel
- 10:48old to us. They don't feel a decade old or eight years old,
- 10:50or however long it is. It still feels like very much a part of
- 10:54our vocabulary. So it does fit in the bigger picture of things. But
- 11:00sonically it has evolved it has grown. I mean we've He's improved as a
- 11:03singer, I've improved as a musician. It's just it's a bit more a
- 11:07grown up version of who we were a decade ago. When it comes to
- 11:13this being like, I always feel like the first song off of a project,
- 11:16whether it's the album EP is almost like a handshake. Not that you
- 11:20have to reintroduce yourselves, right, but it's almost like introducing the latest chapter
- 11:24of you. Why did this song make sense for that? Well? I
- 11:30mean I again, I think, you know, going back to what would
- 11:33be the kind of the chapter this next thing is. We kind of felt
- 11:35like that we did that really heavily on our last record, which was self
- 11:39titled Brothers Osborne. Yeah, and we felt like that was particularly important in
- 11:41that moment, just because we had both shared a lot about ourselves. It
- 11:45had been the years since we released new music, and as we springborne off
- 11:48of this, I think it's about you know, I think that I guess,
- 11:52to use your analogy, it does feel at times like there is always
- 11:56has to be this reintroduction with a new album, and I think the way
- 12:00we might tie these together is that it might just always kind of feel like
- 12:03the story is just running on and continuing, and we don't need to have
- 12:05to pick up from somewhere that was a dead space, and we can just
- 12:09kind of keep having these stepping stones to carry us through on to wherever we're
- 12:13going to lead next. Over the past few years, the interactions that I've
- 12:18been lucky enough to have with you guys, it feels like you have hit
- 12:22a point in your career where you've learned how to put yourself first. But
- 12:26like, the hustle can exist, but it's going to exist in this shell,
- 12:31and then outside of that, it's almost like a mental health thing,
- 12:33right, So at what point did you start balancing that and when you do,
- 12:39how do you tell it? Because you have a different breaking point than
- 12:41your brother and vice versa, right as far as like I need a break,
- 12:43so how do you How do you do that? And how do you
- 12:46guys communicate to each other like, Hey, I'm gonna need a few days.
- 12:48Yeah, Honestly, I think the first thing that you have to do
- 12:50is be able to communicate with yourself. You know, when you're young and
- 12:54you're just pushing on and to pursue the dream is hard. It requires all
- 13:00of your energy and re cuires all of your time, and you miss birthdays,
- 13:03and you miss big events with your family, and you miss your own
- 13:07birthdays. You just kind of just put everything through the side, and eventually
- 13:11your body and your mind starts going, hey, uh, I need a
- 13:15little help over here, and you're like, I'll be fine, I'll get
- 13:16to later. I'll get to it later. I'll get to a later,
- 13:18I'll get TOI later. And then you have a breaking point and you're like,
- 13:20oh my god, what happened. You get through it and you look
- 13:22back and go, wow, I missed a lot of red flags coming from
- 13:26within. So you you learn to be more privy to your own needs and
- 13:33your own red flags, and you don't ignore those signs because they start out
- 13:37small and they don't they gradually get bigger. And then after that you have
- 13:41to respect that you're a human being. I mean, you only have so
- 13:43much time in your life. I have kids now. You have to consciously
- 13:48make space for those things because it's your quality of life. And you know,
- 13:52we're very open with like how we feel, and you know, we're
- 13:56lucky that we have a management team that for like, hey, its getting
- 14:00a little crazy with dial it back, like absolutely, we'll do that.
- 14:03But in this industry, you have to advocate for yourself because if you don't
- 14:07do it, no one else is going to do it for you. Yeah.
- 14:09I think when you first start out, you're like, I mean,
- 14:11we're go getters. Some we worked up in a you know, we grew
- 14:13up very blue collar, so we're just like opportunity yes, opportunity yes,
- 14:18Like I'll take all of them. And then yeah, you do get to
- 14:20a point where you're like, at some point in time, you do need
- 14:22to say no. And because you more so even just I mean, I
- 14:28guess the mental health you want to call it, but you just get to
- 14:30this place of burnout where you just you just start to hate it. Like
- 14:33even though you're doing these amazing things and you're playing amazing venues and you achieve
- 14:37your dream, you start resenting it for a while because it starts taking all
- 14:39of your time and you're like, well, I'm not really enjoying any of
- 14:43this anymore. And so for us to have a space to have a healthy
- 14:46relationship with it is I think it's something that we've really been good at.
- 14:50We don't always hit the mark, but I think currently going out when you
- 14:52are in that head space and you can make music that way. Go out
- 14:56and play a show, and I'm not out there feeling like God, I
- 14:58do not want to be here. I'm feeling oh man, it's amazing.
- 15:01It just makes everything better, like it makes things better at home, makes
- 15:05things better out on the road. And that's been It's taken us a long
- 15:07time to learn that. We learned it the hard way in some ways,
- 15:11but that's been been a big thing. Just also, just stop and smell
- 15:16the roses. You know, it's hard to do. There is a big
- 15:18show coming up May fourth in Austin, Texas. And I don't know how
- 15:22far ahead you look in your calendar, or maybe I'm usually not that far,
- 15:26but this show is big enough that I know it's coming. The iHeart
- 15:28Country Festival it's back this year. You guys were a surprise last year.
- 15:33Yeah, but you're announced this year. You're part of the big show this
- 15:37year. El Dean, It's Jelly Roll, it's Lady A, it's you
- 15:41guys, it's old dominion. Knowing that this becomes like a melting pot of
- 15:45the artists doing it better than anybody else today. What does it mean to
- 15:48see your name on a list like that, and what do knights like that
- 15:50mean to you guys? Well, it's important to us because we've had,
- 15:54like, we're very appreciative of radio, and radio has been very good to
- 15:58us. But we always kind of like walked on the margins of it,
- 16:03not you know, out it wasn't our intention, but we've always kind of
- 16:07done our thing and we've never really changed the way we sound or how we
- 16:10write. So we're grateful for all of the help that we have had knowing
- 16:14that we are a little bit different, but for us to keep doing our
- 16:18thing, and then for us to see our name amidst that kind of list
- 16:22and that is a diverse group of sound coming out of one genre. It
- 16:26just kind of makes us feel better about the genre as a whole because it
- 16:30is wider than it's ever been. I mean, you look, you've got
- 16:33Laney, and you've got Jelly, and it's like you know, and then
- 16:36you've got Lady A and all Dominion now us, I mean, that is
- 16:38a lot of different sounds and we're just lucky to be a part of this
- 16:42beautiful quilt that we call country music. Yeah, and last time we played
- 16:45there at that Fast of All was such a fun time, you know,
- 16:48and and there's so many times for I mean not to be frank, but
- 16:52there's so many times where radio shows are not that fun. Yeah, So
- 16:57walk out there and I was like, damn, this is the this is
- 17:00actually fun as hell. Like we had. We had a great, a
- 17:02great time. We loved it. Plus being an Austin just a great spot.
- 17:03But you know, we've gone there because that's you know, the big
- 17:07show. But we it makes me think all the way back to to like
- 17:08when we were just because that event was happening, We're like, well,
- 17:11let's go there and through an after show party where people can come out because
- 17:15they're going to be in town and kind of like ride the coattails of that
- 17:18event to be to be to playing at the event. It's cool and that's
- 17:22like one of the coolest things in our whole career, Like rooms that we
- 17:25were opening in that we're now the headliner are in and all of that kind
- 17:26of stuff. It's it's like, it's it reminds us how far we've come.
- 17:32Every time a normal tour is stop is I'd imagine you're building the set
- 17:36list, and we've talked set lists a while ago. When you guys are
- 17:38in here. It's you know, it's you got to do this, You
- 17:41got to do this throughout this show. The iHeart Country Festival is built.
- 17:45We're like, here's your time, here's your time. Right, It's really
- 17:48like bang out. You know your songs, you know tempo, you know,
- 17:53mixing the big hits whatever. How do you build a set list for
- 17:57something like that, whether it's like a twenty twenty five thirty minutes set versus
- 18:02you know, you're playing for an hour and a half, two hours if
- 18:04you feel froggy that night whenever. How's this difference between building the two Well,
- 18:10I mean, the thing is there that would be a little challenging,
- 18:14you know, like right off the bat would be you're gonna want to come
- 18:17out swinging, but then everyone's want to be coming out swinging, and at
- 18:19some point in time when everyone's swinging all night long, it just gets a
- 18:22little like it just wears you out. So you're like, how do you
- 18:23then be able to have a moment where But then again you don't want to,
- 18:26like, you don't know anyone else's set, so I don't want to
- 18:29come out here and you know and play like a chill set when the person
- 18:33before me just played a whole set of ballads and you're next thing, Everyone's
- 18:36like boring, you know, so I think you do when I have like
- 18:38how do you come in hot have a moment where you can bring them down
- 18:41and back up. I mean, I think we're pretty pretty good at that.
- 18:44But we'll I don't know how long we have to play, but I
- 18:45know last time we played it, we had a good time, and we'll
- 18:48usually come. We like to be the band that gives the crowd what they
- 18:52want. And I'm the type of person when I'm there and if I were
- 18:56to see a band, I'm like, hey, I love your new music.
- 18:57And as much as I want to play new songs on and I we
- 19:00want to put new songs, I also win the type of person I'm like,
- 19:03hey, I'm sorry, but play the play the hits like come on,
- 19:07give them tim so let me let me back you into a corner.
- 19:10Then may fourth Moody center lights go low, big Fancy Brothers, Osborne,
- 19:14introduction by Bobby Bones or whoever's you know doing your your innswer at that point,
- 19:18what's the first song that you come out with? Will and Nelson cover
- 19:27last thing? I want to ask you guys, is uh Country music has
- 19:32become so much more than just write it, record it, put it out.
- 19:36There's a lot of noise outside of just the music, whether it's I
- 19:38mean, you guys have done the you know, put your name on the
- 19:42whistle Pig right like whistle Pig on that special release. People are opening bars.
- 19:48There's a new bar about every other day with an artist or band's name
- 19:52on it. Where do you guys see yourselves outside of just the music?
- 19:56Like, what what do you want to do? Obviously you're nominated again.
- 20:00You can't have an award show without a Brothers Osborne nomination. Let's go.
- 20:03But other than that, that was my way of saying same to you,
- 20:08thank you. But when it when it comes to that extra stuff, is
- 20:11it important? Well no, not at all. I mean, in fact,
- 20:15I think the more you get, the more you realize how much that
- 20:18doesn't really do anything for your happiness. And I've actually been trying to refocus
- 20:22on my life just as of late, of just of how do I be
- 20:26of service to others and give back in a way that because it fulfills me
- 20:30way more than any of this stuff, you know, and I trust me,
- 20:33I want more, but I know when I get more, I'm still
- 20:36gonna want more. And you know, there's there. There is a quote
- 20:40I heard once from two famous authors when being Joseph Heller who wrote Catch twenty
- 20:48two and then what's the kind sold our house? And it's don't having all
- 20:52his book spent Kurt Vonnegut, but there are you know, a billionaire's house,
- 20:57and and he's like, Wow, you have the biggest book the world
- 21:00right now, and you're not even close to touching what this guy has.
- 21:03And he goes, yeah, but I have something that he will never have
- 21:06enough. Yeah, And that and that is where, uh, that's where
- 21:10I've been trying to live a little bit these days. And it's I know,
- 21:12I'm getting ready to wrap here. Uh. It's crazy because I just
- 21:15had a similar conversation with somebody on the radio side about something that I was
- 21:21chasing, and I got it and it didn't do what I thought. It
- 21:23never does. It never does what you think it's going to. And I
- 21:27got it, and I'm like, and it didn't do what I thought it
- 21:30would do. For so like the fact, and literally I'm talking this is
- 21:33the conversation that happened like an hour and a half ago. Really yeah,
- 21:36And in fact it's in fact, it's even it makes you feel even way
- 21:40worse because you're like, wait, well I worked all of that and it
- 21:44didn't give me anything. Now you feel even worse than you did before you
- 21:45got there, because you're like, I thought this was the answer. And
- 21:48it's a very common thing. It's partly with John went down the journey he
- 21:52did with mental health. As you get there and you're like, wow,
- 21:53not only do I still feel like crap, but I have a lot more
- 21:56to lose now. And now you got all this anxiety and I know it's
- 21:59on. It's such a ridiculous thing to complain about, but it's extraordinarily common,
- 22:03and it's what a lot I think it drives a lot of people to
- 22:06be crazier, or drugs or drinking just to have some other stimulations. You
- 22:10realized that, like, it's all the things that men have been there all
- 22:11along, you know. But it's okay, it's all right to ignore those
- 22:15things because it's what we do. It's the type of people we are.
- 22:18But at some point you will have a day of reckoning where you realize,
- 22:22okay, I need to realign my priorities and realize that all the things that
- 22:26truly matter to my heart have been within arms reach all these years. So
- 22:30as we land the plane, the segue was Award nominations. I'm a fan
- 22:36of you guys as humans. First, I've been lucky enough to interact with
- 22:38you all the time, thinks, and I'm just as big a fan of
- 22:41the music that you guys created, shows you put on. So if I
- 22:45have an opportunity, I'm typing the name and I'm checking the box for same
- 22:51you get another nomination. What did that mean to Brothers Osbourne ten years ago
- 22:56versus what it means today? Yeah, I mean it's interesting to put that
- 23:00in perspective because there's so many things, you know, because and here's the
- 23:03other thing to maybe springboard off what you're talking about is that it has been
- 23:06kind of like a slow rise for us through our entire careers, and there'd
- 23:08be people who are like, man, you guys are killing it. I'm
- 23:11like, we are, you know, like what you know? Are like
- 23:15it's killing me. I know that was, you know, and so you
- 23:18know, I do feel like it has been that. But when I look
- 23:19back, you know, that's why it was cool. So I was talking
- 23:22earlier about just like when you're like, you go to these rooms and you're
- 23:25like, holy cow, we were in this room as the opener. Now
- 23:27we're in this room as the headliner, and you look back over five ten
- 23:30years and just think of where you came from from our first nomination to the
- 23:34first time we won, and just how shocking all of those moments were.
- 23:37And I just try to bottle that up as much as I can and not
- 23:41forget it. I will never have that same excitement again because it's just to
- 23:44be impossible to get there. But I always try to just remember and have
- 23:48the same gratefulness that I had to be in the conversation. And I think
- 23:52that's that's you know, certainly where I'm at with it right now. I
- 23:55mean, if you win back to back years, like do you go home
- 23:57and go, well, twenty nineteen puts you wait, here's twenty twenty.
- 24:02They all get a place. Hell yeah, they all get a place.
- 24:04I have a studio. I have a place where they go in the house.
- 24:07But I do have a studio that I bought down the street from my
- 24:11house, and I've been letting friends and stuff you use it, And I
- 24:12do have a couple of there's you know, just letting you all know I've
- 24:15done some cool stuff, you know, not all of them, just a
- 24:18couple, you know, I still want to be kind of humble about it.
- 24:23Well, I know you all are busy, so the fact that you
- 24:26had any time today to come hang out of me is a lot. Make
- 24:30sure I'm making time for you