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The Joe Rogan Experience. Showing by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. up lucas what's up good to talk to you man thanks for being here yeah i appreciate you having me i gotta tell you you know when i heard willie nelson's kid plays music there's a thing that you always do and i i have to admit it you do it like when the son of a great man you always assume well He's probably mediocre.
You know what I mean? And then you performed at McConaughey's, that charity function thing, and you fucking killed it, man. You blew me away. It was incredible. And I was like, wow. It was really cool to see, man. It was really exciting. It was really fun. You were the highlight of the night, man.
You really were. It's moments like those where I started to gain confidence. You know, I'd have over the years... I'd go out and play, and I'd play my songs that I've written, and I'd get crowds that would do that. And so that gave me the confidence to keep going. And I first started playing music in order to get closer to my father. Oh, wow. You know what I mean?
So he would be gone all the time, and I'd be missing him. And so in order to get close to him, I figured I need to speak the same musical language. And so I learned Young, and I wrote a song, Young, that's on the new album actually I got. It's called You Were It. It's the first song I ever wrote when I was 11. Wow. And my dad loved it so much that he covered it.
at the time, and he put it out on his album back in 2004 called It Always Will Be. The album was called It Always Will Be. And that gave me the confidence at a young age. Kris Kristofferson came up to me and he's like, man, you don't have a choice but to be a songwriter. And so I had all this inspiration at a young age.
Kind of like an athlete at a certain point, you kind of have to look at like, oh, well, if I have a talent at this, I have connections in the industry. I need to work like I was going to go to the Olympics on this because it's something that I can do that will make it so that I never have to rely on my family or my father for anything.
My whole goal in life is to discover who I am as an individual.
Is that a part of the difficulty of growing up with an incredibly famous father?
I think the – you know, Viktor Frankl has a book, a very famous book called Man's Search for Meaning. And it's about Auschwitz and he was an Auschwitz survivor and he wrote about what was the common denominator in terms of people who persevered and survived in these camps. And dignity and meaning were the common denominators generally.
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