If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.