nothing worse

from rolling stone interview with james murphy:

Well, fronting my band, in particular – I can only speak to that – was super fun. It’s amazing. Like, these are my best friends, and people liked our band, and we got to be uncompromising. It’s incredible. But it’s still being a professional rock musician, which is a little boring, because there’s so many expectations that I do take seriously. In other words, you make record. You finish record. You make video. You pick single. You go on tour, which takes a really long time. You do interviews. It’s basically a two-year process to do an album, within which you have very little life. And it was the best job imaginable, but as soon as I started to complain about it, there’s nothing worse than a person in a position that other people envy, complaining. When someone says, “Why don’t you just quit if you don’t like it?” that’s a fair enough thing to say, and I’m one of those people that always said that when rock stars bitched. So, take my own advice, you know? [Laughs]