The Musician vs. The Fan

Queen Kwong and I shoot the shit about the symbiotic relationship between artists and listeners, the tradeoff between passion and paycheck, and what it really means to live "the dream."

Nobody is immune to parasocial relationships.

When I first read Queen Kwong’s piece about being an American Apparel model, I was intrigued. By the time she published “The Rockstar Must Die,” I knew we’d be friends.

Call me creepy, but I was right. We met up in London a few times last month, mostly to day drink, sometimes to “talk shop,” always to kvetch. I wanted to interview her. She wanted to interview me. We decided to interview each other.

Below, eavesdrop on our conversation about loving music, needing music, what it means to be successful, and how music hits differently on stage and off.

Stick with us until the end, because Carré has been sitting on an insane new project that she’s finally going to tell us about.