Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.
From Ben Folds
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.
The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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