I'm not a musician, so I can't speak to that medium, but I've always heard that he who pays the fiddler calls the tune.

I've been writing songs a long time and this is what I've learned: You better have thick skin and you better not be in it for money or glory or to make people like you or your songs.

I write songs because I can. And when I do create a good song it gives me an almost incomparable high. There's really nothing like the feeling. I suppose the closest I can get to describing it is to compare it to falling in love or sex.

When I play a song for someone, I'd prefer they liked rather than disliked or were indifferent to it. But ultimately, what other people think of it is of no real concern to me. If it was, I would have stopped writing songs a long time ago.

So I don't dwell on those who don't like my songs or worry about trying to make anyone like them. I just try to write a song I like. I try to write a good song.






Write from your heart, not what you think others want to hear.

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