Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

Have you ever wondered what it'd feel like to be a rock star?

Center stage at some big venue singing a song you know the audience love?

Well, my guest Nico Case described to me how that feels for her.

It's not like anything else you know.

And sometimes when your sound on stage is just right you feel like what it would feel like if you were a fire hose and you could spray water really hard for a really long period of time.

Or you're like a fleshy wind sock just hanging off of a microphone.

It's Bullseye.

Coming up I'll talk to Nico Case about the self-reliance that comes from losing your parents the importance of owning your own work and why she moved to live on a farm.

There's cows that come over in my house.

It's pretty awesome.

They move when they see me coming it makes me feel good.

They're big brown eyes.

Then later I'll talk to the legendary musician and co-founder of A&M Records, Herb Alpert.

He's got a new record out called Come Fly With Me.

He'll tell me about the first time he picked up his signature instrument.

When I was eight years old there was a music appreciation class in my elementary school.

And in that room there was a table filled with instruments and I happened to pick up the trumpet.

I tried to make a sound out of it because I thought you just blow hot air into the mouth.

That didn't work.

But you know when I finally made sound it was speaking for me.

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