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Erik: Where are you becoming more confident?
Conrad: I'm becoming more confident in asserting myself. That sounds like a very small little
thing, but I'm trying to grasp for the words that can convey. What it means is I'm becoming
more aware of my skills, becoming more aware of how I interact with others. And this is
all good because I'm getting to a point where I'm starting to become aware of my experience,
and I don't just mean résumé experience, I did A, B and C, I mean it's real life experience
in the sense that I'm starting to know how best to interact with people. I'm starting
to really know how to find the best in people, how to extract their greatest talents. I'm
becoming aware of how to more quickly find my own faults, pinpoint them and address them.
It's—the only word I can think about it is experience, but it's not just job experience,
it's personal experience, friend experience, family experience, it's life experience. And
now I realize that I'll become very experienced at the end of my life, but, you know, I wish
I could have that experience now but that's all a part of growing I guess. But the reason
I say all this in answer to that question is because it's—it's—I'm more confident.
It's something I've realized I'm far more confident which is good because I realize
I'm learning as I live my life I'm still learning, and I never wanna stop learning.
Erik: What goals are you setting as you look ahead to what comes next in your music career?
Conrad: The main goal is to keep playing music that I find personally fulfilling. That's
the main goal. For me, that means right now writing and performing original music. It
also means expanding the circle of musicians I play with, with the new Takka Takka record,
that's a set of brand new songs for us, and I couldn't be more happy with them. That's
fulfilling to me. Playing with Bob Weir, playing all of these Grateful Dead songs that have
meant so much to me most of my life, that's something new that has opened up to me, is
playing other songs and finding new interpretations -- being fulfilled by that. The quick answer
to this question is I wanna keep being fulfilled as a musician, and that means finding things
that are artistically challenging. That's something I never wanna stop doing.