Dave Matthews Discusses His Nomination

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 this Young Hollywood. I'm not either. I'm sort of old Seattle. No, not even that. Old say. Old man. Anyway, um, I'm not middle 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 Grammy's coming up. 15 nominations that you've had now in your career. It's the most for.

Not this year for a second I was like Oh, you don't hear yeah. You're 14 more didn't tell you about. But you know, I got I get nods. They give you a nod, but you know, I'm not I'm quite mastered the actual victory. And so it's sort of like a that's what it feels like to get nominated. I'm not because 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 what really matters. What matters now is even this is even better. It's 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, it does it's never the same. It's always different because 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 being 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 in 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 how you do. That's right yeah. It's like no, no, no. It's like skying.