David Senra

And that thrilled and frightened me.

And so he releases the album and he starts touring.

And this paragraph that I'm about to read to you, this is what it sounds like when you're completely in love with what you're doing.

I was 23 and I was making a living playing music.

Friend, there's a reason they don't call it working.

It's called playing.

I've left enough sweat on stages around the world to fill at least one of the seven seas.

I've driven myself and my band to the limits and over the edge for more than 40 years.

We continue to do so, but it's still playing.

It's life-giving, joyful, sweat-drenched, muscle-aching, voice-blowing, mind-clearing, exhausting, soul-invigorating, cathartic pleasure and privilege every night.

It is something that lets the sun in, that keeps you breathing, that lifts you in a way that can't be explained, only experienced.

It's something to live for.

And it was my lifeline to the rest of humanity in the days when those connections were tough for me to make.

That's another hint of where we're going.

Again, I didn't understand it the first time I read it.

Can it be hard?

Yeah.

Is everyone built for it physically and psychologically?

No.

Are there nights you don't want to go on?