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 There`s an intimacy lost on the big audiences, but there`s also a sort of cool kind of buzz that you get from it too, like `Wow -- there are 10,000 people here.` It tends to be a little more high energy, and you try to capture as many people as you can; whereas with a small show, you reveal a little bit more personality. I almost feel like I`m there hanging out with them or something. We mix it up. I do little intimate shows just because if I go a long time without doing them, it gets kind of weird -- like I`m playing at people. [He does, however, admit to being a true Type 1 perfectionist.] I am one of those people who is never satisfied, ... When I was a little kid, I made a spaceship out of a refrigerator box, and I was pissed off that it wouldn`t fly. Couldn`t be happy with it. It was pretty cool, too.
(thinkexist.com)
Yeah, that was one crazy year. Basically my whole philosophy starting out -- because the question came up, `Are you going to sign a label deal?` before anyone was really interested in signing me -- my idea was always `Just go out and do it yourself.` The hardest thing for [a major record label] to do is to build a solid foundation, a base, which is like the first 50,000 records -- that core fan base.
(thinkexist.com)
The day it comes out, there`s already things that you start to go, `Oh, I should have done that a little differently.` You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I`m going to do next time.
(thinkexist.com)
[When he`s performing live, Day says, there`s a distinct difference between the big gigs and the little shows.] There`s an intimacy lost on the big audiences, but there`s also a sort of cool kind of buzz that you get from it too, like `Wow -- there are 10,000 people here.` It tends to be a little more high energy, and you try to capture as many people as you can; whereas with a small show, you reveal a little bit more personality. I almost feel like I`m there hanging out with them or something, ... We mix it up. I do little intimate shows just because if I go a long time without doing them, it gets kind of weird -- like I`m playing at people.
(thinkexist.com)
I drive around in my car and listen to [the demo]. And if I drive by people I know, I have to roll the windows up and turn it down -- or if somebody calls, I have to turn it off.
(thinkexist.com)
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