When You Are On Tour In The

Japan Is Quite Weird Because They Wait For You To Say Something Before They Respond. You Can Literally Hear A Pin Drop, They Don't Make A Sound Until You Say Something To The Crowd.

The Culture's Changed Massively. The Kids Are Different, With The Phones And Stuff. Even If You Like A Song, You Don't Really Know Who The Artists Are, It's A Lot More Faceless, It's A Lot Less Tribal. When We Were Growing Up It Was Much More Tribal - It Was Rock, It Was Grunge. Now People Like Songs, [but] They Don't Necessarily Know The Song's Origins. I Don't Know How You Would Feel Angry At The World, Or Distressed, Because Most People Are Constantly Distracted Or Consumed.

There's A Good Sarcasm And A Camaraderie That Comes After Being In A Band. And We've Known Each Other Forever. We've Never Been A Band That Fought Or Argued. As A Songwriter, I'm Really Happy That The Boys Support Me And Contribute And That, But I've Always Wanted To Be Under The Band Stereophonics.

If You Repeat What You Did In The Last Tour, The Likelihood Is It's Not Gonna Be Successful Twice. People Are Nostalgic About A Particular Record, Because It's About The Time When They Were Listening To That Record. But If You Do It Again, They're Like, I'm Not That Guy Anymore.

A Performance Is Only As Good As The Audience You Are Playing To. A Lot Of Times You Feed Off Of The Audience, And We Always Try To Give Them All We've Got And Sometimes You Don't Get A Lot Back, But We've Never Been Dead Whenever We've Performed.