If A Relationship Is Founded On Love

There's Always That Moment When You Realize What It's Going To Be. You Might Have An Overarching Theme And You Need To Fill In The Blanks - And Then There's This "aha" Moment When You See Where It's Going. That's The Most Satisfying Part Of Writing.

Like Thornton Wilder Said, Time Is Not A River, But Rather A Landscape That You Step In And Out Of. I've Always Found That True Of Creative Work, And I've Heard So Many Songwriters And Writers In General Say The Same Thing... When You're Going Into The Realms Of Your Self And Trying To Tap Into The Mystery Of This Creative Source, Linear Time Kind Of Falls Away.

I Dream Of Songs. I Dream They Fall Down Through The Centuries, From My Distant Ancestors, And Come To Me. I Dream Of Lullabies And Sea Shanties And Keening Cries And Rhythms And Stories And Backbeats.

If You're Playing In A Tradition And You Have No Reference Point To It, No Understanding And Have Not Studied It, I Can't Respect That.

When I Was 18 Years Old, I Went On The Road With My Dad After I Graduated From High School. And We Were Riding On The Tour Bus One Day, Kind Of Rolling Through The South, And He Mentioned A Song. We Started Talking About Songs, And He Mentioned One, And I Said I Don't Know That One. And He Mentioned Another. I Said I Don't Know That One Either, Dad, And He Became Very Alarmed That I Didn't Know What He Considered My Own Musical Genealogy.