So here I have posted the answers of two intriguing questions. These questions are different in way that not many interviewers ask such questions and the way Mark has replied gives you a real insight of this man's philosophy. Simply WONDERFUL!
Now that you're a father and you've settled down, what is it like playing your old songs? Is it weird?
It's great. I love it. I really love playing those songs. It's like a tattoo: It reminds you of a certain point in your life. It reminds you of where you were when you wrote it, what was going on in your life when you wrote it. Those songs are pieces of a scrapbook of all of our lives. I think that they are really great songs and even though we've been playing some of them for 25 years, every time we go on stage and play them it's still fun.
How are you going to expose your kid to your music? It can get inappropriate at times.
Oh yeah. My son has come on tour a bunch and he's asked why I get to say bad words on stage but he can't. I don't expect my kid to never curse or to say a bad word. My goal is to try and explain to him that there are places where you can say stuff and there are places where you can't say stuff. I put it to him like this: When you are in school and you're on the playground, you can run around and you can be silly and you can scream, you can play tag with your friends. But when you're in the classroom, you have to sit there, and listen to what the teacher is saying, and not raise your voice, and wait for your turn to talk. Bad words are kind of like that. There are places where you can say "f---" and there are places where you can't. The trick of being a human is to learn what that difference is.
Now that you're a father and you've settled down, what is it like playing your old songs? Is it weird?
It's great. I love it. I really love playing those songs. It's like a tattoo: It reminds you of a certain point in your life. It reminds you of where you were when you wrote it, what was going on in your life when you wrote it. Those songs are pieces of a scrapbook of all of our lives. I think that they are really great songs and even though we've been playing some of them for 25 years, every time we go on stage and play them it's still fun.
How are you going to expose your kid to your music? It can get inappropriate at times.
Oh yeah. My son has come on tour a bunch and he's asked why I get to say bad words on stage but he can't. I don't expect my kid to never curse or to say a bad word. My goal is to try and explain to him that there are places where you can say stuff and there are places where you can't say stuff. I put it to him like this: When you are in school and you're on the playground, you can run around and you can be silly and you can scream, you can play tag with your friends. But when you're in the classroom, you have to sit there, and listen to what the teacher is saying, and not raise your voice, and wait for your turn to talk. Bad words are kind of like that. There are places where you can say "f---" and there are places where you can't. The trick of being a human is to learn what that difference is.
