But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.