Was listening to Rick Rubin interview Andre Benjamin on Broken Record, and they briefly touched on this and agreed that constant touring creates a bubble that i

Was listening to Rick Rubin interview Andre Benjamin on Broken Record, and they briefly touched on this and agreed that constant touring creates a bubble that is terrible for writers. In another part of the interview, Andre Benjamin said he loved going to the laundromat, and his biggest musical aspiration (at the time of the interview) was to play the bass clarinet well enough to be able to play along with anything/anyone at the park or beach (condensing/paraphrasing). I think it's a combination of things, the career of a pop musician appears to be terrible for their art - probably bad for most of them as people, too.