At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.