Alright J here. We're hanging out at the Young Hollywood Studio with the one and only Dave Matthews.

I feel like I've broken the rules. At least it's Young Hollywood. I'm not either. I'm sort of old Seattle. No, not even that. Old say it. Anyway. Um, I'm not I'm not old. I'm middle-aged. 40 is the new 40.

Lots of stuff we want to talk to you about. We got Grammys coming up. 15 nominations that you've had now in your career. That's a lot.

Not this year for a second. I was like, oh, you don't hear yet, you're 14 more. They didn't tell you. But you know, I got I get nods, they give you a nod, but you know, I'm not I haven't quite mastered the actual victory. And so it's sort of like Um, that's what it feels like to get nominated. I'm like, cuz it's great, but then when you lose, it's just it feels like losing still. Right. Anyway, but that's not important because that's not where it really matters. What matters now is this is even better. My friend Tim Reynolds, we were nominated for Best Rock Instrumental. It's just him live by himself with his guitar alone. I at that point in the show, I say, I'm going to let Tim play something. And then I get up and I walk away. And then he plays and every time he does it, he does it's never the same. It's always different. He cuz he's out of his mind. Right. He never does the same thing twice. And then he does whatever he did, and then I got a Grammy nomination for it. And there you go. Rest is history.

Now, was there one moment in your life that was sort of that epiphany that guided you to to get where you are right now?

I was singing an idiot when I was uh six again. Um a hundred years ago. I was singing like an idiot, which is one of the things I like to do, but particularly like an idiot. And my father said, you sing so well that you can sing out of tune. And I remember that was one of the moments of my life that that that I that I think of that transformed me. And made me think, I can sing. It's I I turn down things. So that's how I guide myself. It's just I don't say yes to everything. I just say yes to some stuff and that's how I guide myself.

So it's all about the guidance of That's how

Yes, it's like no, no, no. It's like skiing.