How I Relate to My Music

A few days ago, my new friend and production partner Jesse Karras of Karras Design asked me to describe my relationship to my music.  I answered that it really depends on the track… some I listen to pretty often and really enjoy, others I’d rather forget about.  Anyway, for whatever reason, I neglected to address a pretty important part of his question; the part of the question I’ve spent a pretty significant amount of brainpower on.  How do I relate to the actual process?

My conclusion, at least so far, is that it’s really complicated and really simple.  Creating music isn’t something I’d call “fun” and sometimes, it can be extremely frustrating.  When I’m working on a track, I’m not thinking about women or work or anything else really… it’s very intuitive and in the moment.  It speaks to something very basic and fundamentally ingrained into who I am… it speaks to my need to create and my desire to make that creation beautiful.  And while I’m sure my mind-state and the general happenings in my life have an effect on the outcome, I don’t sit down and say “I’m going to make a song about…….”.  I just start creating.  And the result… is what it is.

Life and art and imitations and all that jazz…

That’s how I relate to my music.