MTV Interview Outtakes
Friday, August 14, 2009
TC Magazine Interview
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Excerpt:
TC: How has the tour been so far?
KA: I feel like it’s been great. We’re kind of getting used to everything, and the shows are going really well. The crowds are amazing, and we are getting used to all the press stuff that we have to do and the meet and greets and all that. I’m excited because I haven’t been to a whole lot of places in the States, and so we’ve been getting to go everywhere, which has been nice.
TC: Do you get to see much of the cities you are in, or is it just on and off the bus?
KA: There are days off sometimes. Today we got here at 4 a.m., and we’re leaving right after the show. We were in Portland for a long time. Portland is a great town. It was really nice. We were in San Francisco a few days, and I had never been there before. So you get to see a little bit — not a full tour or anything.
TC: You sing last on tour, so what do you do while everyone else is on stage?
KA: I’m just maybe making some phone calls — calling [my wife] Katy or calling friends. I might be listening to music or playing my guitar. I have a lot of downtime because I am on for only like 25 minutes, and the show is three hours long. Sometimes I take naps…very needed naps.
TC: How did you pick your songs for the tour?
KA: Obviously people want to hear the songs we did on the show, so I’m doing a couple of those. The other ones — two of them are actually ones I wanted to do on the show but wasn’t able to, and so I was actually able to do them on the tour. The other one is just one that I had sung before when I was doing music. It’s a crowd pleaser. People can sing along with it, so it’s nice.
TC: Was it your decision to take out the “American Idol” coronation song, “No Boundaries?”
KA: A lot of people kind of came in and said that it wasn’t a detriment to the set or anything like that, but it was kind of bringing it down just a little bit. So we decided to replace it with the Killers song “All These Things I Have Done” just because the energy in that song is very crowd-happy.
TC: So has that kept the crowd energy up better?
KA: Yeah, it really has so far. It’s been good.
TC: Are you excited to be back in your home state tonight?
KA: We pulled up this morning, and I was like half-dead, but it just felt like home. You see familiar things and weather and all that. It’s familiar. I’m used to it, which is good.
TC: Are you expecting complete madness when you take the stage? Are you ready for it?
KA: I’m a little scared actually. Obviously we have big crowds every night, but Arkansas is going to bring it to a whole new level. I am very excited about it. It’s going to be home. I know that people in Arkansas really get behind the people that come from here.
TC: So you’re going to be singing the same songs over and over for the next three months. Are you getting tired of them yet?
KA: I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. We’re kind of early. Maybe it will happen, but I don’t think so. Every crowd is different so it makes every show different.
TC: I hear all the guys are on one tour bus. Does it get a little cozy?
KA: Yeah, all seven guys. It’s a little cramped. It’s hard to walk around. It’s going good, though. We’re having a good time on the bus.
TC: You are working on your album while you are on tour, right? Is it hard to switch from performance mode to writing and recording mode?
KA: It is! One day I’ll perform, and the next day I’ll fly to L.A. and do some writing or something like that. It’s hard to switch your mind, but it’s something I’m getting used to.
TC: Are you writing most of the songs on the album?
KA: I’ve been co-writing some stuff and writing some stuff on my own as well. People are sending songs in, too. We’ll kind of put together a whole jumble of songs and then pick the best ones. I would love to be [a writer] on all of those, but we’ll see what happens.
TC: Do you feel like you’ve had a voice in the whole album-making process?
KA: I do. I feel like they really trust me and respect me, which is good.
TC: You’ve been saying the album will be pop-rock, but what do you mean by that?
KA: I think that would be the genre to put it in, but that genre is so huge.
TC: Will you be playing guitar and piano?
KA: I think so. It will definitely have that organic feel, but it will bring something else as well.
TC: Do you have a name for the album yet?
KA: No, I don’t think so. We’ll probably come up with that after we get a better feel for the album.
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