Like anyone else, I’ve had my ups and downs in life. I’ve lived though times where I had the best life I could imagine, and also through tough times where I’m not sure how I survived. At times I’ve felt like I’ve had good friends and at other times I’ve experienced extreme loneliness. Sometimes down periods and extreme loneliness seemed longer than they needed to be, mostly because of a combination of bad choices I had made. my behavior, my unique life circumstances, or just general social awkwardness/anxiety.
Now I don’t think just having tough times should be enough justification for anyone to buy my music, because I get it…everyone goes through tough times. I also don’t think that I deserve any pity for the tough times easier for the same reason, and because the tough times helped made me who I am today. If anything else, what I really learned about music is that when I listened to music I could identify with, it made the tough times seem not as tough. Listening to music helped me with the emotional release I needed at times just to keep going. And even in the good times, listening to music seemed to make it even better.
I figure that by working hard at making music, hopefully someone else in the world will find what I make, identify with it, and even maybe it will help them get through some tough times, just like other music did for me. And I think that’s a great way of making the world a better place. I certainly don’t expect that everyone or even the majority of people will experience my music in such a profound way. But strangely enough, I’ve seen it happen a few times. For me, that’s enough encouragement to keep going…