It has been said that music expresses the inexpressible. And aside from the inherent contradiction in that statement, I believe there is some truth to it. Music can bring to mind an indescribable complex of feelings and associations. Not only that, but music has a way of reaching the depths of our emotional centers – bypassing our internal walls which can rise up when we are directly faced with turmoil, or even ecstasy. I find this process working in reverse when I am writing. I am accessing hidden emotions at an unconscious level. And when I look back on what I have written, I am often taken aback at the feelings I am expressing that were consciously unknown to me.

It is my hope that you will feel these things when listening to my songs. That is all I really have to give. I am not a poet, nor a storyteller. I just don’t have talent in those areas. I do have a fairly well-developed sense of irony in addition to a specific political sensibility, but my muse does not lead me to do much with those sentiments in my music. It doesn’t come naturally, and it ends up seeming forced. I am a musician, a songwriter. Music has always been how I experience and project my feelings. And I offer them back to you in hope they will resonate. If they do, then I am gratified. That’s all I want from my art, for others to hear my songs and respond to them.

 

30 Years