I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.
I used to hate playing Seattle shows.
The best part of touring has to be playing shows.
I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.
I started playing in New York when I was 16. I had a fake ID so I could play shows, and, I don't know, bouncers didn't really say no to me, I guess. I'm fun!
In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
