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1, 2, 1, 2, let's do this.
My name is Brandon Flowers.
I make music and sing songs.
I've always loved music;
it was a part of my life. Just like every other teenager,
I cranked up the cassettes in the car and sang along.
But I never thought, "I'm going to be on the other side."
We've been so lucky with the success we've had—
you know, so many people come to see us play.
It's become kind of a celebration.
By the end of the show,
everyone seems to be a foot off the ground.
One of the clichés when you're growing up—
you get it kind of pounded into your head,
about how you need to have a job that you love—
and for the most part, it's a really difficult thing
for people to, you know, find a career that they really love.
And it's a dream come true for me to have my job be this.
I didn't think it was possible.
There are a lot of connotations
that come along with popular music or rock music,
and it's usually very sex-driven or money-driven.
I realized early on that wasn't the road for me,
and that maybe because of the foundations laid in my life,
you know, by my mom taking me to church,
that I wanted to take a different road, I guess.
It's definitely not normal in this business,
at my age, to have a wife and children.
But I guess for me, it all ties back to my roots
and the examples set from my parents.
You know, they were married for 44 years,
and there was always happiness in my home.
And that's what I want.
I think by the time I had a child,
I had 17 or 18 nieces and nephews.
So I was very accustomed to having kids around,
and I knew the drill. I saw what happened.
And it's like there's this chamber in your heart
that you didn't know existed
that opens up when you have a baby.
You know, it's been such a great experience.
I'm overflowing with that love I didn't know was there before.
It's hard booking tours.
I get in arguments every now and then with our agent, you know,
if he puts us on the road too long—you know, come home
and Ammon's saying, "Hey, Dad."
You know, I don't want to miss out on things.
A lot of it is based around starting a family
and realizing that's what's important to me.
In a lot of ways, I guess, it's kind of surpassed
the music now for me.
Getting older, I've been more cautious about lyrics.
I feel like I want to be a positive force in the world,
and I want to uplift people.
Lots of people love to come up to me and
tell me they were raised in the Church,
and they expect this camaraderie about,
"Oh, we've outgrown it now.
We're smart enough not to be in it."
And it started happening so often that
it made me take a look at myself.
And I realized I was raised in it, and
there's still a fire burning in there.
My name is Brandon Flowers. I'm a father, husband, and Mormon.