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Usually, if you’re on the road, you’re doing promo for your record as well as promo for your tour, so it involves sometimes like 6 a.m. radio calls on some morning shows. A lot of artists, as they get bigger, do less and less of those or they try and record them in advance. When I was touring with Neil Young, he doesn’t do any press, but he’s a lot cooler than I am. I like my shows to sell well. I feel like promoters are putting themselves on the line for me and I’m putting myself on the line for me. I’d like it to sell well and I’ll do interviews if my sales are weak. So, you know, each their own, but I tend to do more work and sleep good at night because I feel I at least tried and, if the show doesn’t sell well, at least I did everything I could and I don’t feel guilty. There’s always a meet-and-greet. Usually, you do kind of favors for radio hoping that they’ll play your single. They’ll do contest winners and contest winners will come back and you’ll take pictures with them. I also give 50 cents of every ticket I do to charity, and so certain kind of charity high donors or whatever will come back and just meet with me at that time. For me, my pre-stage ritual is no pre-stage ritual. If I’m with my band, I like to hang out and goof off until I walk on stage. I don’t do voice warm-ups. I think you should do whatever relaxes you, so, if that’s vocal warm-ups, if it’s some kind of like ritual that helps you get your mind focused, that’s great. You know, I’ve been onstage for so long that I’ve probably gone through all those phases and I, you know, now I’m just sort of like it’s just really normal. It doesn’t take much energy. I don’t even think I sweat on stage. I wish I did. But it’s pretty just – it’s pretty normal now for me, so it’s a pretty personal, personal thing. The only thing I won’t do is read before I go onstage because actually[ph] it makes me too introverted. I get off stage and you get back on the bus and you drive another areas and you start all over again.

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