[Dave Stewart, Behind the Scenes vs. In Front]
Dave Stewart: You see, you need – everybody in the world needs their ego to survive in order to function, in order to even decide, “I’ll be a cameraman,” or whatever you need; something that says, “Well, I think I’ll be good enough to be a cameraman.” And similarly, to go on stage and play stuff, you must think, “I asked if I was good enough that I want thousands of people to come and hear it.”
I’m usually sort of just behind the front person who has to deliver as a singer and they have more problems with their building themselves up into this thing. I’m playing guitar usually. And I feel really, really great on stage partly because I’ve been locked in room for like months and months and months.
But all I like is the fact that it’s a lot of people seem to have felt the same as you have when they’ve heard the songs. And it’s like you’re having a conversation with them that perhaps you can never get with your parents; that they didn’t really understand you or they still don’t understand what you are about, but these people do.
So it’s like, “For temporarily I’ve got a big family and I don’t feel so lonely and empty than I do when I’m not doing that and I’m back to like, “Why did my mom never understand what I did,” which I think most performers have this. They’ve got this kind of void and the void comes from being a child and maybe the parents aren’t understanding them or being from a big family getting left out, whatever. But you are trying to connect with a tribe of people that might maybe feel the same. And when you do and everybody cheers together it is sort of an overwhelming feeling of, “Oh, you’re home.”
I think Dylan said in his early part of his Scorsese documentary, he said, he was just trying to find home for the last thirty years.