Roy Wood Jr.

So I can't not, you know, I can't not water this plant.

So you find yourself just kind of living on both sides of the tracks at all times.

But when you're young and you're just driven and you're fueled by that, it's beautiful.

And then one day you're 44 and both of your industries that you're in are on strike.

Your show is in flux without a host.

And the economics of touring have changed immensely.

And you still have to get back out there with that same fever, that same, you know, passion.

And that's a very difficult thing to recreate when you have a child and you have responsibilities.

And I think that part of it.

You know, it's like Rocky three after Clubber Lane beat the shit out of Rocky.

And then Mickey sits Rocky down like, yo, man, you got rich.

You got comfortable.

You lost the fight.

And you may be right.

And we will see.

But that does not make me comfortable because I, you know, like when people talk about.

Like the light at the end of the tunnel, right, where people go, there's a light and keep running and one day you will achieve the light.

To me, the light in the tunnel is the train coming to run me over.

So I've always operated from a career standpoint.

I've always operated from a place of paranoia of this being a finite journey.