Amazing, wonderful, funny, wrenching stuff is right here in front of us all the time, anywhere. I keep telling myself just to relax a little and catch a few of the normal details honestly - and the broad themes will show up out of curiosity. I don't like to practice, I have no discipline. But I play whenever I can. It keeps me . . . sane, I guess.
My songs tend to be ostensibly about normal everyday things, and often have a healthy dose of self-deprecation to them. I like playing with words, and love the way the meanings of words have overtones and resonances very much like musical sounds.
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