![]() However, there is something important here that I must dissect at this moment. ![]() I should say right here and now that I am deeply humbled and honored when someone finds my art “life-giving”. There is definitely some truth in this feeling, but I also realize that art is important and that there are, it seems, some people who connect with my art and draw strength and inspiration from it. It’s an unspoken sense that I’ve grossly overestimated the importance of my own creativity. It’s a similar abstract feeling that keeps me up at night in the months before I release an album. I feel this deeply in some space I can’t define with words I’ve never read. “Help me because without You I’m…well, I’m something other than what I want to be drunk and reckless in my self-propelled chaos.” I started with this line because it’s the prayer I pray (in different words) every day of my life. It’s a plea to God to help me be better and healthier and truer than whatever it is I am now as I careen recklessly through this frantic, modern existence. Well, if you can’t tell, this is a prayer. ![]() Fill me up with all your holy water cause’ I’m driving drunk in the night with one headlight.” You may wonder what I mean by this. The first line on this album is “Free me, break me. It’s exhausting and I feel a little guilty making one more thing for people to consume because we really don’t need more content and we definitely don’t need more pop-rock records. I peruse Instagram and every other post I see is somebody announcing their new album, telling me to pre-save their songs or promising a “big announcement” the next day. I kind of feel like writing and recording an album is a strange thing for me to do, especially these days. It means so much to me that anybody would spend time to connect with my creative impulses. Thank you for taking the time to listen to this collection of sounds and words and feelings. I’m cringing as the “righteous” march in place Gold-leaf pamphlets and neon signs telling me what I should buy
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