Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
“There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.”
“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”