Being on the road, recording, doing press tours, so much of a musician’s life involves distraction and distance; it requires a total recalibration of what constitutes home and stability. Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you, a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone. To someone who misses you, and whom you miss, bridging that space between togetherness and apartness, literally and figuratively, can be brutal.
