YOUR QUESTION

09/14/2020 Hayley

Hi Trevor! Your candid social media accounts and your willingness to engage with fans, both on this site and after gigs etc, give the impression that you are an approachable guy. Do you ever develop friendships or keep on touch with people (non musicians) that you first meet as fans of your music, or is it important to you to keep your professional and personal lives completely separate?

MY ANSWER

I like this question. Back in the days of sending cassette demos across the world to strangers as a form of DIY distribution I garnered several friendships that remain to this day, a good 30 years later. Realistically it’s impossible to keep in touch with everyone, nor would I want to. I am approachable because I’m a human being, but not always approachable for the same reason. I’m often baffled when people expect anything from me based on what they’ve read or heard. Of course, there are marketing/web-presence reasons for keeping my social media open. I haven’t reached the cult-of-personality status of some of my peers, thank goodness, so I like to engage on a human level with people (especially if they are not overbearingly creepy and cross boundaries), and I like the idea of assuring my followers that I am merely human, as they are, but I am more private than I may appear.