In weak moments, I think I’m funny.  I forget the long history of flops and awkward moments; I forget that my sense of humor has run me aground many a time.  Despite all of the times when I swear I will keep it to myself, I try and try again.  I don’t know from where this instinct arises, but when it manifests in my music, it is my biggest advantage and my biggest liability.

I’ve said it before in plenty of interviews: I knew early on that I would not be good at writing the straight down the middle Pop song.  I tried for a while and I was so disgusted by what came out that I wanted to stop writing altogether.  To this day, I have a hard time stomaching the most...

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that consistency is key.  It is the key to long term success in any undertaking.  It is the key to love and good parenting.  Consistency is the key to life.  Any true musician knows that the path to mastery starts with mind-numbing consistency.  I can still hear a metronome mocking me, in time no less.  Perhaps I'm overstating the importance of consistency, but it has been on my mind of late and (as this, the first blog in months, might attest) I've been lacking.

I can hear my father's voice now.  He was and continues to be a man of startling consistency-- in...

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