I enjoy performing this song live, because I'm reminded of what I have.
I'm reminded I have something to come home to, something to work to not lose.
After I got my daughter, I realized: I can lose this.
I can lose my kid if I'm a bad father.
I can lose my spouse if I'm a bad husband.
I always thought parents that came and talked about this newfound love, I always thought
them to be stupid people and I realized, no, no, no.
That's how it feels. It's really hard to explain it until you're there, and it's also a little bit annoying
because now I'm that dad to tell everyone, "Oh, it's so great to become a father."
So I try not to tell anyone that unless they ask me.
I really wake up feeling, "Wow.”
That she chose me is pretty cool.
Like, I must have had a couple good jokes up my sleeve or something.
I am so lucky that I have not only her, but I have our kid.
The fear of losing should exist to keep us on our toes.
I mean guys, we usually have our heads up our asses.
The thought when you wake up or the thought that comes to mind isn't necessarily, "Oh, I'm so lucky."
I can get scared that it's all a dream.
The fact you can still be nice to each other.
Like, I can give her a foot rub even though we've argued earlier that day.
Doesn't mean I don't love you.
My job is a little demanding and sometimes everything flies by so quickly that I'd like
to just put it on pause and just chill with the family.
It's a nice sentiment, because you can't stop time.
Suddenly we got a kid, and there was suddenly more love.
It's like, I didn't split my love.
I never thought about love like that before.
I never thought of love as a constant, as this all-filling thing.
You can keep multiplying love.
It's like people who have lost first pets and then a grandparent and then a father or
a brother or a sister, and they're crying and they're crying and they're crying and
like, "Oh, couldn't it just stop, this sadness?"
And I’m like “You’re crying out of love.”
So with every good memory we give to our children and our brothers and sisters and friends,
with every good memory and every smile, one day those smiles will become tears and the
laughter will become crying.
That's the point.
To me, it's the word play on so real and surreal.
Because love is pretty surreal.
The fact that you can have that much influence on each other's feelings and thoughts
and habit patterns, I think that is so real and surreal.
When you make another person feel good about themselves without trying very hard, just
by being genuine, just by being an honest person, and they let you know: "Wow, you're
making me feel really good."
That's a special feeling.
That's why I love compliments so much. A person you don't know and will never meet again, you can compliment the dress or whatever.
The way they carry themselves, that they're smiling on the street.
You can make that person's day better.
Everybody thinks that once you find love that's bliss and you're done, but that's when the
real work starts.
Then I got my kid and suddenly I really got, like, whoa.
A girl that I know, their very, very young son died playing hide and seek. I was sitting there with Viola aged six, eight months.
Like, the kid was a year.
He'd just learned to walk and run.
Then you hear people that don't have kids that say, "They'll get over it."
I don't fucking think so, man.
Like, this family is going to be scarred for life.
They saw their son, like ... yeah.
Yeah, if you're not afraid of losing the people you love, man, then you just don't love like
I love.