Matt Rife

I've been going crazy.

I'm only home for, like, two to three days at a time.

When I'm there, after the second day, I'm like, fuck, I feel like I need to be doing something.

When I don't, like, it's okay to, like, take a break and just be healthy and, you know, be where your feet are at for a little bit.

I think it's, I think that's totally fine, man.

Yeah.

It's just hard to be like, it's incredibly hard, man.

When you've been chasing something for so long and you feel like you've accomplished isn't the right word, but like you at least got to a place of comfortability to where you don't need to be killing yourself every single day.

Yeah.

It's hard, man.

I'm going from a hundred to zero or two, you know?

It's hard to coast.

Does that make sense to you?

That makes perfect sense.

I can't thank you enough for even understanding what that feels like.

Most people just don't get that.

There is a fear of slowing down, for sure.

And I have slowed down a ton.

We were doing 40 to 50 shows a month between 2024 to the beginning of 2025.

Six to seven nights a week.