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(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm here for my interview.

- I'm Dorian and I use the pronouns, he/him.

Are you comfortable sharing how you'd like to be addressed?

- Thank you for asking.

I use they/them pronouns.

(energetic rock music) (instruments tuning) (audience applauds) ♪ I am tired of the waiting ♪ I can hear the record playing ♪ ♪ But no music, just the needle ♪ ♪ Heaven knows just how I feel ♪ Cry, try, and try ♪ Try, try, and try ♪ Try to face the river I cannot cross ♪ ♪ That's only you and I ♪ All the praying, all the pleading ♪ ♪ On my bended knee, heart beating ♪ ♪ We'll get past this, we'll pull through it ♪ ♪ Wild horses couldn't do ♪ Try, try, and try ♪ Try, try, yeah, and try ♪ Try to face the river I cannot cross ♪ ♪ That's only you and I ♪ And all the times I gave love ♪ ♪ And never got the same love ♪ Looking for signs, throw a line ♪ ♪ You were, oh, you were mine ♪ Try, try, and try ♪ Try, try, Lord, I, I try ♪ Try to face the river I cannot cross ♪ ♪ That's only you and I, yeah ♪ Tried to face the river I cannot cross ♪ ♪ That's only you and I (audience applauds) - [Gavin] Thank you very very much.

Hey!

That groove feels good.

Does that groove feel good to you?

(audience cheers) ♪ Oh - Here's a little song about love because personally, I feel like there is no love, like a summer love.

You know what I mean?

Here we go.

♪ I might never even know your name ♪ ♪ If I hadn't taken half the time ♪ ♪ To tell you that I had no shame ♪ ♪ That I was gonna make you mine ♪ ♪ But I let you be who you've become ♪ ♪ Let the others wish they could have some ♪ ♪ Let 'em have their bubblegum ♪ While we fill up on summer ♪ In the summertime ♪ If I had a doubt, if I waited ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Someone else might just swung on in ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Sun is comin' out ♪ Celebrate it ♪ In the summertime ♪ We will never be this young again ♪ ♪ Got a lot of catching up to do ♪ ♪ And a lot of loving left to give ♪ ♪ Less you feel you've got to prove ♪ ♪ The more you wanna just let live ♪ ♪ Even if you've been afraid of love ♪ ♪ Or you're waiting for a little shove ♪ ♪ A little bit could be enough ♪ Just try it for the summer ♪ In the summertime ♪ If I had a doubt, if I waited ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Someone else might just swung on in ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Sun is comin' out ♪ Celebrate it ♪ In the summertime ♪ We will never be this young again ♪ ♪ Sweet, sweet, sweet, summertime ♪ ♪ Da da da da da da da da, da da da ♪ ♪ Woo ooh ♪ In the summertime ♪ If I had a doubt, if I waited ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Someone else might just swung on in ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Sun is comin' out ♪ Celebrate it ♪ In the summertime ♪ We won't ever be this young again ♪ ♪ Yeah, in the summertime ♪ If I had a doubt, if I waited ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Someone else might just swung on in ♪ ♪ In the summertime ♪ Sun is comin' out ♪ Celebrate it ♪ In the summertime ♪ We won't ever be this young again ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah (audience applauds) - Thanks a lot, everybody.

We love you!

Thank you so much for that.

Thanks again.

This next one that we're gonna do for you.

I wrote on my way down the stairs right there just now and it didn't have any words while I was at the top of the stairs, but then I wrote them on my way down and it goes like this.

This is a song about transportation.

It's called Chariot.

(audience cheers) One, two!

♪ Staring at a maple leaf ♪ Leaning on the mother tree ♪ I said to myself, "we all lost touch" ♪ ♪ Your favorite fruit is chocolate covered cherries ♪ ♪ And seedless watermelon, oh ♪ Nothing from the ground is good enough ♪ ♪ Body rise ♪ Look what's over me ♪ Oh, chariot your golden waves ♪ ♪ Are walking down upon this face ♪ ♪ Oh, chariot I'm singing out loud ♪ ♪ To guide me ♪ Give me your strength ♪ Remember seeking moon's rebirth ♪ ♪ Rains made mirrors of the earth ♪ ♪ The sun was just yellow energy ♪ ♪ It is a living promise land ♪ Even over fields of sand ♪ Seasons fill my mind and cover me ♪ ♪ Bringing back ♪ More than a memory ♪ Oh, chariot your golden waves ♪ ♪ Are walking down upon this face ♪ ♪ Oh, chariot I'm singing out loud ♪ ♪ To guide me ♪ Give me your strength ♪ You'll be my vacation away from this place ♪ ♪ You know what I want ♪ Holding that cup ♪ It's pouring over the sides ♪ You make me wanna spread my arms and fly ♪ ♪ Oh, chariot your golden waves ♪ ♪ Are walking down upon this face ♪ ♪ Oh, chariot I'm singing out loud ♪ ♪ To guide me ♪ Give me your strength ♪ Give me your strength (chariot) ♪ ♪ Give me your strength (chariot) ♪ ♪ Give me your strength (chariot) ♪ ♪ Give me your strength ♪ Give it to me ♪ Give it to me ♪ Give it to me ♪ Oh chariot (audience cheers) - This next song is also about transportation.

(audience laughs) This next song is about advice.

Has anybody here ever given advice before?

Well, if you ever find yourself on the hamster wheel of life and you want to get off of it, 'cause you wake up one day and you realize your stuff owns you and you don't own your stuff.

And you're thinking, man, why am I putting all this OT trying to pay this thing off I never get to use.

All you boat owners out there.

Or whatever.

You might go asking somebody else for advice.

And hopefully if you ask for advice, you follow the rules and you ask somebody who loves you.

You ask somebody who's older than you.

And you ask somebody with higher IQ.

It's very important.

That woman just said, how do you know?

(audience laughs) The answer, to how do you know is, if it works out.

So this song right here is how that conversation might go.

It's called, Ford.

♪ Tryin', tired but I'm tryin' ♪ This hill I've been climbin' ♪ No, I can't see the top ♪ Old man, can you help me understand ♪ ♪ Why I'm on this planet?

♪ How do you know when to stop?

♪ ♪ Workin' for a dollar ♪ Well, that's how you make a man feel broke ♪ ♪ Workin' for a dollar ♪ That's the only thing I know ♪ Just drive an old Ford ♪ Count blessings and praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Have less, make it feel like more ♪ ♪ Leave work at the front door ♪ Work hard and you get paid ♪ Don't give 'em your best days ♪ ♪ Only so many left to save ♪ Some of 'em up for the ones worth savin' em for ♪ ♪ Patience, I've run out of patience ♪ ♪ I need a vacation ♪ I need out of this shift ♪ Skydive, maybe see how fast I can drive ♪ ♪ Too young to not feel alive ♪ And I'm caught in a ditch ♪ Passin' me a bottle ♪ Old man starts rollin' his own smoke ♪ ♪ Says he lost me at dollar ♪ Here's the only thing I know ♪ Just drive an old Ford ♪ Count blessings and praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Have less, make it feel like more ♪ ♪ Leave work at the front door ♪ Work hard and you get paid ♪ Don't give 'em your best days ♪ ♪ Only so many left to save ♪ Some of 'em up for the ones worth saving 'em for ♪ ♪ Once you find your love ♪ Hold her close and say her name ♪ ♪ No amount of money's gonna make you feel the same ♪ ♪ Can't you see?

♪ Can't you see?

♪ Just drive an old Ford ♪ Count blessings and praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Have less, make it feel like more ♪ ♪ Leave work at the front door ♪ Work hard and you get paid ♪ Don't give 'em your best days ♪ ♪ Only so many left to save ♪ Some of 'em up for the ones worth saving 'em for ♪ ♪ La-la ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la ♪ La-la ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-La ♪ (audience applauds) - Thank you so much!

I'm gonna tell you a little bit, little bit about my old man.

My old man went by the name Wayne, but his full name was his full name was John Wayne Degraw.

And you know, being named John Wayne back in 1948 would've been like if I would name my kid now like Brad Pitt Degrraw, you know, kind of a tough name to live up to, you know.

Picture your kid out there in the yard at recess and teacher standing there calling for Brad Pitt and your son comes trotting up.

Somebody called me?

Sorry, wrong Brad Pitt.

But my father was a, his day job, his day job was he worked for the New York State Department of Corrections.

He was what you would call a prison guard.

And my folks were, they were high school sweethearts and they went to Woodstock together in 1969.

And as my father put it, he said I went there with your mother with my draft card in my back pocket for the Vietnam War.

And he got shipped out to basic right after the weekend.

So, this song goes out to my folks.

They were lovers in arms and this is called, Freedom.

(audience applauds) ♪ Johnny's got a family of five, and he works for the state ♪ ♪ He got debts that are piling high, and an old Chevrolet ♪ ♪ Willie on the dash playin' tunes ♪ ♪ Smells like grass 'cause he's covered in June ♪ ♪ Picking up extra cash mowing lawns with his kids ♪ ♪ Stained sneakers walk through the church ♪ ♪ As they kneel down to pray ♪ Sayin', "Please, Lord, have pity on us ♪ ♪ Take our troubles away ♪ These seeds that we're plantin' with you ♪ ♪ We hope one day, oh, Lord, will come true" ♪ ♪ I remember even right now that look on his face ♪ ♪ So we'd get high, and we'd ramble ♪ ♪ Get drunk and we'd gamble ♪ Teenagers cruising at 75 ♪ Singing "Sweet Home Alabama" ♪ Stay out all damn weekend ♪ Sundays are for sleeping ♪ Nobody leaving this planet alive ♪ ♪ Might as well enjoy your freedom ♪ ♪ Yeah, freedom ♪ Ma says she gonna enlist, and the Corps pays for school ♪ ♪ They'll have more money they could work with ♪ ♪ If she just had tools ♪ John says "What you think's best ♪ ♪ I'll work doubles and make up the rest" ♪ ♪ Still drown in college debt, I'll never forgive or forget ♪ ♪ So we'd get high, and we'd ramble ♪ ♪ Get drunk and we'd gamble ♪ Teenagers cruising at 75 ♪ Singing "Sweet Home Alabama" ♪ Stay out all damn weekend ♪ Sundays are for sleeping ♪ Nobody leaving this planet alive ♪ ♪ Might as well enjoy your freedom ♪ ♪ Yeah, freedom ♪ Went to Woodstock ♪ With his draft papers in his back pocket from Vietnam ♪ ♪ Workin' in the slammer ♪ Did hard time ♪ Went through hell together, they'd die for each other ♪ ♪ Oh, these lovers in arms ♪ Yeah, they'd get high and they'd ramble ♪ ♪ Get drunk and they'd gamble ♪ When they were younger like everyone else ♪ ♪ Like you couldn't blow out their candle ♪ ♪ Stay out all damn weekend ♪ Sundays are for sleeping ♪ Nobody leaving this planet alive ♪ ♪ Might as well enjoy your freedom ♪ ♪ Yeah, freedom (audience applauds) - [Gavin] Thanks very much.

Back in about the year 2000 I was living in the East Village right at the edge of alphabet city in New York.

And I had a piano in there and I'd sit there and I'd try to write songs every day.

And I had this neighbor who lived upstairs ffom me, a big strong guy.

And every once in a while when I was playing.

Thank you, bro.

Every once in a while when I was playing music during the daytime, he'd remind me how strong he was by dropping his weights on the floor, which was my ceiling.

And that was just him reminding me that he could come downstairs and tear my arms off anytime he wanted to.

So I'd try to make my writing session short.

I was trying to write this, maybe a song Paul McCartney would write, 'cause you know, as a songwriter you try to come up with silly ways to stay motivated and trying to come up with ideas.

So I thought, hey, what will Paul McCartney write?

Had a hell of a time because I'm not Paul McCartney.

So I never got to write one like that.

Instead I ended up with this song right here, which did all right for me, This song was a hit in Japan.

So, it was a hit here too.

But it was a hit in Japan.

So tonight I'd like to perform it for you in Japanese.

(audience cheers) Now when I start singing this song, if it doesn't sound like Japanese to you, it's because you also are fluent.

(audience laughs) And people try to say our education system is broken.

They are wrong.

Here we go.

♪ Oh, this is the start of something good ♪ ♪ Don't you agree?

♪ I, haven't felt like this in so many moons ♪ ♪ You know what I mean ♪ And we can build through this destruction ♪ ♪ As we are standing on our feet ♪ ♪ So, since you wanna be with me ♪ ♪ You'll have to follow through ♪ ♪ With every word you say ♪ And I, all I really want is you ♪ ♪ You to stick around ♪ I'll see you everyday ♪ But you have to follow through ♪ ♪ You have to follow through ♪ These reeling emotions they just keep me alive ♪ ♪ They keep me in tune ♪ Oh, look what I'm holding here in my fire ♪ ♪ This is for you ♪ Am I too obvious to preach it ♪ ♪ You're so hypnotic on my heart ♪ ♪ So, since you wanna be with me ♪ ♪ You'll have to follow through ♪ ♪ With every word you say ♪ And I, all I really want is you ♪ ♪ You to stick around ♪ I'll see you everyday ♪ But you have to follow through ♪ ♪ You have to follow through - How y'all feeling?

♪ The words you say to me are unlike anything ♪ ♪ That's ever been said ♪ Oh what you do to me is unlike anything ♪ ♪ That's ever been ♪ Am I too obvious to preach it?

♪ ♪ You're so hypnotic on my heart ♪ ♪ So since you wanna be with me ♪ ♪ You'll have to follow through ♪ ♪ With every word you say - That's an actual crowd, go ahead!

And.

♪ And I, all I really want is you ♪ ♪ For you to stick around ♪ I'll see you everyday ♪ So since you wanna be with me ♪ ♪ You'll have to follow through ♪ ♪ With every word you say ♪ And I, all I really want is you ♪ ♪ You to stick around ♪ I'll see you everyday ♪ But you have to follow through ♪ ♪ You have to follow through ♪ You're gonna have to follow ♪ Oh, this is the start of something good ♪ ♪ Don't you agree?

(audience applauds) - Thank you so much.

So this next song here, this is about finding.

This is about finding, not a good one.

You know, not a good one.

This is not a song about settling.

This song's about.

This song's about finding the greatest of all time.

The best.

This is not a song about Tom Brady.

This is a love song about the one for you.

But we all know that the greatest of all time for you, there's really just one person.

♪ Oh ♪ Oh ♪ Letting my love light ♪ My love light shine right through the battles ♪ ♪ Just like an arrow, straight to your heart ♪ ♪ Even the wounded one like mine ♪ ♪ Facing the gallows ♪ That stood in the shadows ♪ Is coming out of the dark ♪ Even thought I'd almost ♪ Almost give it up ♪ But I did, I did it ♪ I really stuck with it ♪ Someone found love ♪ I'm so excited ♪ And this world, this life ♪ So happy, could cry ♪ This angel of mine ♪ Greatest of all time ♪ She's the greatest ♪ The greatest ♪ Yeah, I landed on the real thing, is this real life?

♪ ♪ Used to be jaded ♪ But that feeling faded ♪ When I gave it a try ♪ Put away my problems and all of my pride ♪ ♪ Put on my halo, with my best foot forward ♪ ♪ And I put in the time ♪ I went through the darkness ♪ Just to see the light ♪ Yeah, I did, I did it ♪ I really stuck with it ♪ Someone found love ♪ I'm so excited ♪ And this world, this life ♪ So happy, could cry ♪ This angel of mine ♪ Greatest of all time ♪ She's the greatest ♪ The greatest ♪ Used to think love was blind ♪ Until I saw you ♪ Leanin' on the hands of time, sayin' ♪ ♪ That there's no tomorrow ♪ Now you're all I'm wanting ♪ Now you're all I'm wanting ♪ Yeah I did, I did it ♪ I really stuck with it ♪ Someone found love ♪ I'm so excited ♪ In this world, this life ♪ So happy, could cry ♪ This angel of mine ♪ Greatest of all time ♪ She's the greatest ♪ The greatest ♪ Greatest of all time ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ She's the greatest ♪ The greatest (audience applauds) - Are we feeling good?

(audience cheers) ♪ So many people gonna say that they want you ♪ ♪ To try to get you thinking they really care ♪ ♪ But there's nothing like the warmth of the one ♪ ♪ Who has put in the time and you know he's gonna be there ♪ ♪ Back your border when she knows someone crossed it ♪ ♪ Don't let nobody put you down, who you're with ♪ ♪ Take the pain of protecting your name ♪ ♪ From the crutch to the cane to the high wire ♪ ♪ I'm in love with a girl who knows me better ♪ ♪ Fell for the women just when I met her ♪ ♪ Took my sweet time when I was bitter ♪ ♪ Someone understands ♪ And she knows how to treat a fella right ♪ ♪ Give me that feeling every night ♪ ♪ Wants to make love when I wanna fight ♪ ♪ Now someone understand me ♪ Out the many broken back doors and windows ♪ ♪ Through the valley of the love of the lost ♪ ♪ Is a hole that is cut through the souls falling down ♪ ♪ From the thrones without reading any innuendos ♪ ♪ But you found it a piece for the moment ♪ ♪ The moment was over in time ♪ Then it's gone, the hit and run ♪ ♪ The differs one has a short life ♪ ♪ I'm in love with a girl who knows me better ♪ ♪ Fell for the women just when I met her ♪ ♪ Took my sweet time when I was bitter ♪ ♪ Someone understands ♪ And she knows how to treat a fella right ♪ ♪ Give me that feeling every night ♪ ♪ Wants to make love when I wanna fight ♪ ♪ Now someone understand me ♪ I wanna tell you what you do ♪ To think you practice what you preach ♪ ♪ Now I know there's nothing we can't reach ♪ ♪ 'Cause the heart can't erase once it finds a place ♪ ♪ To be warm and welcome ♪ To be held in shelter ♪ I'm in love with a girl who knows me better ♪ ♪ Fell for the women just when I met her ♪ ♪ Took my sweet time when I was bitter ♪ ♪ Someone understands ♪ And she knows how to treat a fella right ♪ ♪ Give me that feeling every night ♪ ♪ Wants to make love when I wanna fight ♪ ♪ Now someone understand me ♪ I'm in love with a girl (I'm in love with) ♪ ♪ I'm in love with a girl (I'm in love with) ♪ ♪ I'm in love with a girl ♪ Sing it to me (I'm in love with) ♪ ♪ Wants to make love when I wanna fight ♪ ♪ Now someone understand me (audience applauds) - [Gavin] Thank you!

Thank you so so much.

I, you know what?

I'm absolutely loving this experience right now.

Fellas, are you having fun?

Absolutely!

That is some of the most delicious water.

Water is so good for you.

So, we have any soldiers in the house today?

Any soldiers?

Anybody here currently serving or ever serve?

If you are serving or did serve, I don't wanna force you to, but if you're capable of it, I personally would love to see you get celebrated in this room with us today.

Put your hand up and be recognized by the society you protect.

(audience cheers) Thank you for your service.

Thank you very very much.

Thank you for your service.

Really appreciate you.

Really appreciate you.

We owe a lot to people like that.

They don't ask for it but they do it in any way 'cause they love you.

Now there are many different forms of a soldier as we all know, some of 'em wear uniforms.

Not everybody who is a soldier in real life necessarily wears a uniform.

I know some of us out here in the civilian world have somebody in our life that we think is our personal soldier.

The person we know is always gonna show up when we need them.

Anybody here have anybody like that?

(audience cheers) Anybody here willing to do something for somebody to be their soldier?

(audience cheers) As long as you know, you got that in the world, you got somebody who loves you.

The song goes out to all the soldiers.

♪ Where did all the people go?

♪ They got scared when the lights went low ♪ ♪ I'll get you through it nice and slow ♪ ♪ When the world's spinning out of control ♪ ♪ Afraid of what they might lose ♪ ♪ Might get scraped ♪ Or they might get bruised ♪ You could beg them, what's the use?

♪ ♪ That's why it's called a moment of truth ♪ ♪ But, I'll get it if you need it ♪ ♪ I'll search if you don't see it ♪ ♪ You're thirsty, I'll be rain ♪ You get hurt, I'll take your pain ♪ ♪ I know you don't believe it ♪ But I said it and I still mean it ♪ ♪ When you heard what I told you ♪ ♪ When you get worried, I'll be your soldier ♪ ♪ Funny when times get hard ♪ At the last moment when you're supposed to charge ♪ ♪ We're always on the longest yard ♪ ♪ Oh, they feel their feet getting cold ♪ ♪ Hiding here hiding there ♪ Find them underneath the stairs ♪ ♪ People hiding everywhere ♪ Tryna be still as a stone, but ♪ ♪ I'll get it if you need it ♪ I'll search if you can't see it ♪ ♪ You're thirsty, I'll be rain ♪ You get hurt, I'll take your pain ♪ ♪ I know you don't believe it ♪ But I said it and I still mean it ♪ ♪ When you heard what I told you ♪ ♪ When you get worried, I'll be your soldier ♪ ♪ My aim is so true ♪ I wanna show you ♪ I'll try forever ♪ I'm never gonna say "Surrender" ♪ ♪ And I'll get it if you need it ♪ ♪ I'll search if you can't see it ♪ ♪ You're thirsty, I'll be rain ♪ You get hurt, I'll take your pain ♪ - [Gavin] Beautiful!

♪ I know you don't believe it ♪ But I said it and I still mean it ♪ ♪ When you heard what I told you ♪ ♪ When you get worried, I'll be your soldier ♪ ♪ Na na na na na na na na ♪ Na na na na na na na na (I'll be your soldier) ♪ ♪ Na na na na na na na na (Well, I'll be) ♪ ♪ Oh, I'll be your soldier (Na na na na na na na) ♪ ♪ Na na na na na na na na (La da da la da da da da) ♪ ♪ Na na na na na na na na (I'll be your soldier) ♪ ♪ La da da da da ♪ La da da da da ♪ La da da da da da ♪ La da da da da da da da - [Gavin] All right.

(audience applauds) Thanks so much, guys!

Appreciate that, you sound so good.

Thank you.

Feel free to sing along if you know this one I put this one out in 2011, goes like this here.

♪ Dreams ♪ That's where I have to go ♪ To see your beautiful ♪ Face anymore I stare at a picture of you ♪ ♪ And listen to the radio ♪ Hope, hope there's a conversation ♪ ♪ We both admit we had it good ♪ But until then it's alienation ♪ ♪ I know that much is understood ♪ ♪ And I realize ♪ If you ask me how I'm doing ♪ I would say I'm doing just fine ♪ ♪ I would lie and say that you're not on my mind ♪ ♪ But I go out, and I sit down at a table set for two ♪ ♪ And finally I'm forced to face the truth ♪ ♪ No matter what I say I'm ♪ Not over you ♪ Not over you ♪ Damn, damn girl you do it well ♪ ♪ And I thought you were innocent ♪ ♪ Took this heart and put it through hell ♪ ♪ But still you're magnificent ♪ I, I'm a boomerang, doesn't matter how you throw me ♪ ♪ I turn around and I'm back in the game ♪ ♪ Even better than the old me ♪ But I'm not even close without you ♪ ♪ If you ask me how I'm doing ♪ I would say I'm doing just fine ♪ ♪ I would lie and say that you're not on my mind ♪ ♪ But I go out, and I sit down at a table set for two ♪ ♪ And finally I'm forced to face the truth ♪ ♪ No matter what I say I'm ♪ Not over you ♪ And if I had the chance to re-new ♪ ♪ You know there isn't a thing I wouldn't do ♪ ♪ I could get back, on the right track ♪ ♪ But only if you'd be convinced ♪ ♪ So until then - Sing it to me.

♪ If you ask me how I'm doing ♪ I would say I'm doing just fine ♪ ♪ I would lie and say that you're not on my mind ♪ - I like that!

♪ But I go out, and I sit down at a table set for two ♪ ♪ And finally I'm forced to face the truth ♪ ♪ No matter what I say I'm ♪ Not over you ♪ Not over you ♪ Not over you ♪ Not over you ♪ That's where (audience applauds) - We're almost to the end of our journey on this particular program.

And I just wanted to thank everybody who worked so hard to put this together for us today.

I know it was a long day for a lot of people who were not me, but they came out here and made made it look like I knew what I was doing tonight.

So, one more time, please give it up for the guys on stage with me here tonight.

Billy Norris on the guitar.

Michael Baker on the drums.

And I want to thank my personal crew for working so hard.

And I wanna thank all the good people of this venue who work so hard today to make it happen.

Thank you, guys all out in the house.

And I want to thank everybody at PBS who said yes to do this and who made it happen today.

So thank you guys for being here today.

Thank you very much.

And last and certainly not least, I wanna thank all you for showing up today to make us feel important, make us feel like we matter on this particular day.

We love you, guys.

Thank you to the fans for being here.

(audience applauds) You know, I really appreciate it.

I know typically when you go out to a show, you're typically going out on a day you don't necessarily have extra time and you don't necessarily have extra money to spend or extra wage you can skip out on when you can make an extra buck instead of going out, listening to some music.

So I want to thank you for coming.

We got one more trick in the book for you.

And this song here, this song was really the first autobiographical song I wrote and I wrote this song and sort of a protest to pop culture.

And somehow it became a pop culture hit.

So, you know, you don't get to choose, right?

So I, man, I thank God that it did become a hit because man, I hated my day job.

So, I thank this song for getting me outta my day jobs.

And probably most importantly, this is the song that paid off my college loans.

So here it goes, it goes like this.

♪ I don't need to be anything other ♪ ♪ Than a prison guard's son ♪ I don't need to be anything other ♪ ♪ Than a specialist's son ♪ I don't have to be anyone other ♪ ♪ Than the birth of two souls in one ♪ ♪ Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from ♪ ♪ I don't want to be ♪ Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately ♪ ♪ All I have to do ♪ Is think of me and I have peace of mind ♪ ♪ I'm tired of looking 'round rooms ♪ ♪ Wondering what I've got to do ♪ ♪ Or who I'm supposed to be ♪ I don't want to be anything other than me ♪ ♪ I'm surrounded by liars ♪ Everywhere I turn ♪ I'm surrounded by imposters ♪ Everywhere I turn ♪ I'm surrounded by identity crisis ♪ ♪ Everywhere I turn ♪ Am I the only one who noticed?

♪ ♪ I can't be the only one who's learned ♪ ♪ I don't want to be ♪ Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately ♪ ♪ All I have to do ♪ Is think of me and I have peace of mind ♪ ♪ I'm tired of looking 'round rooms ♪ ♪ Wondering what I've got to do ♪ ♪ Or who I'm supposed to be ♪ I don't want to be anything other than me ♪ ♪ Can I have everyone's attention please?

♪ ♪ If you're not like this and that ♪ ♪ You're gonna have to leave ♪ I came from the mountain ♪ The crust of creation ♪ My whole situation-made from clay to stone ♪ ♪ And now I'm telling everybody ♪ ♪ I don't want to be ♪ Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately ♪ ♪ All I have to do ♪ Is think of me and I have peace of mind ♪ ♪ I'm tired of looking 'round rooms ♪ ♪ Wondering what I've got to do ♪ ♪ Or who I'm supposed to be ♪ I don't want to be anything other than me ♪ ♪ I don't want to be ♪ I don't want to be ♪ I don't want to be ♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪ Yeah yeah yeah - Nashville, Tennessee, we love you, thank you so much!

(Audience applauds) Thank you, PBS!

(Audience applauds) ♪ Oh chariot your golden waves ♪ Are walking down upon this face ♪ ♪ Oh, chariot I'm singing out loud ♪ ♪ To guide me ♪ Give me your - [Announcer] Funding for this series has been provided in part by the following.

(energetic rock music) (upbeat music) - Hi, I'm here for my interview.

- I'm Dorian and I use the pronouns, he/him.

Are you comfortable sharing how you'd like to be addressed?

- Thank you for asking.

I use they/them pronouns.