This is one of the most intimate and personal journal articles I’m likely to write. It begins with a difficult truth. For more than a decade, I’ve been running away from myself. When I was a teenager, my relationship with music was like a passionate love affair,...
Everyone, even the continually ‘successful’ in life, will spend the majority of their time in a state of failure, rejection, struggle or boredom. How well you manage those numerous down periods defines your level of success. How quickly do you bounce back from...
How to be a happy, productive, and financially stable self-employed musician? It’s a topic I’ve wanted to tackle for ages and now feels like the right time. Money. Income from songwriting. Having a ‘day job’. Earning a living. And so on… I could think...
If you’ve spent your whole adult life dreaming of writing songs for a living, it seems odd that you would then find yourself constantly procrastinating and putting songwriting off when you are supposed to be doing it. And yet, that is where I find myself. Why? Why am...
The problem is this: I’ve noticed myself struggling to finish a lot of song ideas. I’m having more ideas for songs, and coming up with more interesting melodies and guitar parts, than ever before in my life. (This is wonderful news – and something I should...
