“It felt like you were singing right to me” is the most humbling phrase any songwriter can hear. It doesn’t matter how unique the circumstances seem to me, the more vulnerable I am on the page the more resonant the music is . We’re hungry for confirmation that we aren’t alone. pain Your pain can still feel like a shameful secret, even when you’re in a global pandemic and you know your friends and neighbors are deep in the fray with you. Then you hear some line, some lyric, someone says exactly what you’re thinking and it all comes out like a sigh.
Read MoreThe void is pregnant with possibility, but very often we are so afraid of the pain of loss that we never let ourselves get past it. We want to solve the problem of the closed doors, force them back open, MAKE IT HAPPEN, not because we necessarily want what is on the other side, but because we’re afraid ultimately of the unknown.
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