BODIES<\/p>\n
You\u2019re now 50. How\u2019s your body holding up? Sick! Awesome.<\/p>\n
Any tips? Use it or lose it.<\/p>\n
How do you use it? I climb trees. I jump down stairs. I always take the stairs. I\u2019ve challenged myself to do a 360 flip on my skateboard for the next 10 years. What else? Sauna and ice plunges. I\u2019ll do those three or four times a week.<\/p>\n
Can you lead me through your piercings and tattoos? I pierced my ears myself. When I was about 16, I pierced my nose, too. When I was 20, I got my first tattoos, and I\u2019ve done my own tattoos now. And I did [points] that and [points] that, but I got [points] this and then I got [points] this. And then I got these other two \u2026<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s a lot! What do you say to clean skins who are afraid of even getting one? I say, the clean skins are the most original people on the planet. I say, congratulations.<\/p>\n
How do you ensure your body is in the right condition to tour and play night after night, in city after city? In many ways, I think rock \u2018n\u2019 roll saved my life. That\u2019s the inverted narrative of what we expect.<\/p>\n
Has that changed over time \u2013 for instance, the way you treated your body in your 20s versus now? It\u2019s changed. I\u2019m probably at my fittest when I\u2019m working, just because of what it takes. It\u2019s so regimented. I know that I need at least eight hours\u2019 sleep, and I will get that no matter if I go to bed at 3am, or 8.30pm. I know I need to drink lots of water and eat at least two hours before the show. I know I need to meditate. I know I need to practise, and warm up. So, for my whole day, I\u2019m working backwards towards [including all] that.<\/p>\n
MONEY<\/p>\n
In your songwriting, you\u2019ve raged against unfettered capitalism and its environmental impact. Do you feel that more or less acutely nowadays? It\u2019s definitely not less. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s more, but I think I have a more sober idea of what money is. That\u2019s probably because I have more of it now.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s interesting, tell me more about that. Well, for me, it\u2019s all about sustainability. Money is a tool. I\u2019ve always wanted enough to do what I need to do. [Music] takes quite a lot of money to do globally. But once I have that, that\u2019s all one needs. So, from the time I\u2019ve had money, I was donating it or I was playing for free. That\u2019s how my career started: people were donating to me as a busker. And when I started playing shows, I was often playing for forest and anti-uranium benefits. The minute I could do something, I always donated my time. There\u2019s an adage: with privilege comes responsibility. And one of those responsibilities is: pay tax, motherf—er.<\/p>\n
What has been your best money-related decision? To name the band [John Butler Trio] after myself, rather than naming it with a group of people who I\u2019d break up with. I saw that happening way too many times to many great bands who\u2019d break up. For the principal songwriters, all these songs would be theirs, but then they\u2019d have to start all over again [with a new name].<\/p>\n
What\u2019s been your worst money-related decision? If you\u2019re an honest person, you\u2019re inevitably going to hit something that you don\u2019t understand about the system. But this comes back to my best decision. [If you have your name] you can always play live. And when I play live, no one else can do what I can. I can\u2019t be Beyonc\u00e9. But Beyonc\u00e9 also can\u2019t be me. And there are enough people in this world \u2013 a small percentage, but enough \u2013 that will like me enough that I can feed my family.<\/p>\n
John Butler tours Australia in September and October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BODIES You\u2019re now 50. How\u2019s your body holding up? Sick! Awesome. Any tips? Use it or lose it.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-121807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}