Interview: Robert Leslie

International folk troubadour Robert Leslie on his radical decision to leave behind World of Warcraft for the world at large.

0:46 – on freedom
3:28 – on quitting video games
5:40 – on fiction
7:31 – on reaching out to strangers
9:58 – on bringing the immediacy of busking to the stage
13:52 – on his travel memoir “Street Snakes”
15:41 – on staying awhile in NYC (“Hello Again, White Paper”)
17:29 – on telling a girl the song’s about her (“I Could Take You for a Fool”)
19:41 – on Justin Bieber (“Is This What You Dreamed, Then?”)
25:20 – on politics and keeping a clear head
31:12 – on the life-changing decision to leave (“So Long!”)
35:37 – on busking’s influence on his songwriting
38:37 – on neuroticism

Discussed: Super Mario Sunshine, “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whitman, Mac Demarco, The Tallest Man on Earth, “The Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu



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