Hello, my friend, long time no see.
>> Hello, I miss you.
>> I miss you too, you haven't been around.
You've been absent, and I know you're not doing whole lot of interviews, so
thank you for being here.
>> It's my pleasure, thank you.
I'll be here as much as you want me.
>> Okay, well whenever you're in town, stop by.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, tomorrow?
>> We're not here tomorrow, but you can come by.
>> Aren't you glad you're not here tomorrow?
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, I am.
So, no but I was really happy when your song came out, Love on the Weekend.
I was like there's John.
>> Yeah. >> I mean and I missed your music,
so- >> Thank you.
>> I'm so glad.
So you're releasing how many, you're releasing four?
>> I'm doing four songs at a time.
I started realizing that 12 songs is a big ask for people now.
>> Mm-hm. >> Because it's so much content.
>> Yeah.
>> When I started seeing even me, my favorite acts would put a record out and
I'd be like, I can't today.
It's too much music.
So I sort of decided I'd put four out at a time, also not all of them were done.
>> I see. >> [LAUGHS]
>> There's a way to get sort of my
deadline to hit.
>> And was that, cuz you went to Montana for a while.
>> Yeah, I live out there when I'm not working.
>> You're still there sometimes?
>> Yes.
>> And do you think that that's like a great place to reset and
have a different perspective?
>> Yeah, I mean, I spend some of the time in Hollywood.
And then I spend some of the time in Montana watching Hollywood on TV.
>> Mm-hm. >> Thinking all the same things that
other people watching TV think, forgetting that I've ever been in that bubble,
and it's great.
>> I know that you used to watch The Bachelor.
Are you caught up, have you been watching this season?
Cuz Rachel was just here.
>> I watched the first couple.
But I love the show, but It's too much time to ask of me.
Two hours is a lot of buy-in time.
Cuz I always watch the season premiere and at the end of it they say
on an unbelievable new bachelor and I go show me more of this.
Show me more of this.
I'll pay $50 if you just show me the entire season in 30 minutes.
That's what I want.
>> [LAUGH] >> Wow.
>> Just get me the helicopters, get me the girls crying, girls crying on helicopters.
If you get tears in flight on The Bachelor, that is prime stuff.
>> It really is.
>> Yes, so I just haven't caught up this- >> It is too much time to ask of us.
I think the two hours, it's gotta change, but it was a good one this season,
you missed a good one.
>> I'm sure there will be others.
>> [LAUGH] >> You should be a bachelor,
didn't we talk about that before?
>> I thought about, I think it would be really fun to be the bach.
>> Would you really consider it or you- >> No.
>> Just saying? No.
>> [LAUGH] >> I don't think that I would find love
there, unless they would change the sort of vetting process for
who would be the contestant.
You know, I just- >> They would do that for you,
if you would consider being a bachelor you can tell them how you want people vetted.
>> Yeah I think it would be one of the lowest rated shows.
>> [LAUGH] >> I don’t know, I think we would all
watch you as a bachelor, I really feel strongly about that.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Hey, who's,
before I forget, who is the girl on the cover,
there's a drawing of a girl, there's you, I saw your drawing.
>> That's me.
>> And then, who's that?
>> That's sort of like, her, you know what I mean?
Sort of the spiritual her.
>> Mm-hm. >> It's memory, it's fantasy,
it's what you wanna see, it's what the brain, it's sort of the, it's the other.
It's the spiritual sort of other.
>> It's not somebody that you've seen before?
>> In my mind.
>> Mm-hm, so that's what you're looking for?
>> That's sort of the representation of- >> Are you in a relationship?
>> Nope, I thought of this the other day.
I thought of it on Valentine's day.
You don't I have to be with someone to be together.
And I'm enjoying being together.
>> I see what you mean.
>> You know what I mean?
We're plain. >> Yeah, got it, got it, got it.
>> But love on the weekend, I thought you were driving off with somebody that put
her feet up when you were driving and stuff?
>> That's a total thing that I've had in flashes and a lot more of.
>> I see.
>> You have those too?
The world is your oyster, you drag, you go up the coast, you go up.
>> I don't know, I'm married.
I'm in a- >> But you have those moments.
>> [LAUGH] >> But you have those moments.
>> Yeah, she puts her feet up, Portia puts her feet up when we drive.
>> You road trip?
Do you still road trip?
You go away for a weekend?
>> Yes we do. >> Yeah, that's great.
>> Yeah.
>> That's what I miss.
I miss plans.
I miss stuff.
A man can drive to Big Sur alone but how lonely is that?
>> It's lonely. >> Yeah.
>> You should be the bachelor, all right >> [LAUGH]
>> So I think we've decided,
you announced that the Search for Everything tour is starting today, right?
>> I am announcing that the Search for Everything tour continues into the summer
now so we'll be in cities all across the country this summer,
which is a new announcement, and tickets, I think, go on sale next Friday.
>> That's very exciting, and, thanks to American Express,
everyone in the audience is getting a pair of tickets to go see John at the LA Forum.
>> Aah!
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