But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.
It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.