Does life on the road make it harder to re-enter the non-tour world?
Ty: Yes. Because when I’m home my life is totally unstructured. When I’m on the road my life is incredibly structured. It’s a big adjustment we all go through– reentry sickness. In a way you can really relax into tour. I feel really taken care of by tour. There’s a tour book we know when to be where we have to be. We just have our thing. When I get home it’s time to write there’s nothing out there in the ether other than that. Q: What other artistic things are you working on? Ty: I’d like to play in a stupid cover band and play the drums. It’s a total cliché but I’d like to write a novel at some point. That’s a more natural way to write for me– longer pieces of prose. Q: Moving to Atlanta what was that like? Ty: It was like, where am I? I wasn’t really ready. In some ways there were things that I needed. Gen and I needed a place of our own. I knew that this could be a really great place for us to live. But it was just so different. Living in New York where you walk everywhere and her
