No one starts out good, or even remotely decent.  You're shit, then you keep working, then you get less shit, and then so on.  Eventually you'll be decent and maybe good.

I haven't been to either so I'm equally excited to see both.  Should be really fun.  I suggest you go to whatever one's first because I'm sure you're going to want to go again the next day.  haha.  playing.  but not really.

Baby's Day Out

I have no idea what this is concerning but there's no way I can answer all the questions I get, nor would I subject everyone who chose to do the irrational thing by following my page to the massive flood of anonymous submissions, ranging from pretty cool/thought provoking to trollish.  I do tend to privately answer anyone who submits a question with their identity revealed so if you really need an answer you should ask me un-anonymously and I'll do my best.to respond to you personally and directly.

I assume anyone I collaborate with is a fan of my music, as I'm a fan of theirs.

If by fan meaning someone who likes my music, then sure.  I definitely have in the past.  It's a part of this sort of lifestyle.  I used to be opposed to it on a theoretical level but once I realized that music is my life and that it was getting exponentially more difficult to meet anyone who didn't know what I did for a living, not just girls, I accepted the reality.  Almost all of my artist friends have found their relationships that way.  It makes sense if you remove the sensationalist part of fan experience and focus in on the admiration aspect.  As far as telling those apart, It's up for me or any other musician to decide what is admiration and what is something else.  Gotta be careful.

As for dating seriously, I don't think I could do that to anyone, not just a fan.  I work too much and am away for too long and often to ask that sort of commitment from someone else.  I prefer to be single.