Why I do it.
It still amazes me sometimes how much power music has over us. It is a form of therapy whether you are listening or writing or dancing. Music has a way of expressing something that we can't get out any other way.
I've been asked a couple times how I write my songs, what's my process. For instance, do i write the lyrics and then the melody, or vice versa. There really is no set way. Sometimes it begins with a poem that screams to be a song. Sometimes you just sit down and start playing something.
I've only ever cried while writing a song one time before this. The first was a song called "Forever and Back," I sat down, wrote it, and recorded it all in one sitting and never played it again. This time was different. I don't know where it came from, it doesn't even seem to be anything that I had on my mind, but once I sat down it just started coming out and I couldn't stop it, I didn't know how. And I couldn't do anything but let it happen until it was finished. And I cried. For the second time since I began writing music, I cried.
It's not an especially good song. It's not my favorite. Musically it's not challenging, or boundary breaking, or new in any way. It just is. And it somehow encompasses something inside of me. It scared me that I was affected so much when writing it, but now that it is, I feel better for it.
I've been asked a couple times how I write my songs, what's my process. For instance, do i write the lyrics and then the melody, or vice versa. There really is no set way. Sometimes it begins with a poem that screams to be a song. Sometimes you just sit down and start playing something.
I've only ever cried while writing a song one time before this. The first was a song called "Forever and Back," I sat down, wrote it, and recorded it all in one sitting and never played it again. This time was different. I don't know where it came from, it doesn't even seem to be anything that I had on my mind, but once I sat down it just started coming out and I couldn't stop it, I didn't know how. And I couldn't do anything but let it happen until it was finished. And I cried. For the second time since I began writing music, I cried.
It's not an especially good song. It's not my favorite. Musically it's not challenging, or boundary breaking, or new in any way. It just is. And it somehow encompasses something inside of me. It scared me that I was affected so much when writing it, but now that it is, I feel better for it.