If You Got A Trumpet, Get On

Love Songs Come In Many Guises And Are Seemingly Written For Many Reasons – As Declarations Or To Wound – I Have Written Songs For All Of These Reasons – But Ultimately The Love Songs Exist To Fill, With Language, The Silence Between Ourselves And God, To Decrease The Distance Between The Temporal And The Divine.

Guns Are Part Of The American Psyche, Aren't They? This Is Collateral Damage For Having A Wild West Mentality. It's Intrinsic To The American Psyche. It's Never Going To Change.

The Idea Of Songwriting Is A Transformative Thing, And What I Do With Songwriting Is Take Situations That Are Quite Ordinary And Transform Them In Some Way. Apart From Things Like The Murder Ballads, The Songs I Write, At Their Core, Are Quite Ordinary Human Concerns, But The Process Of Writing About Them Transforms Them Into Something Else.

Musicians Are At The Bottom Of The Creative Pyramid And Authors Are At The Top, And Many People Think It's Unacceptable For Someone To Attempt To Jump From The Bottom To The Top Of The Pyramid.

The Singing Tells Everybody What To Do Musically.