![]() So, you know, all of those hits from back in the day were all just me writing songs, and trying to write what I thought the audience wanted to hear. I’d never even liked anyone before Leilani. So, that was the denominator for the listener. And they either were, like you said, finding it or losing it. I just knew that people needed love and they wanted it. Since I met her, it’s all been about being in love - I never knew I had a definition for that word because I never knew it existed. ![]() How much has that definition of the word love changed or remained the same as you’ve gotten older?īM: What’s interesting, before I met my wife, I talked about love, but I never talked about being in love. SMN: One of the main themes of your music is the idea of “love,” whether love lost or love found. I’m not sure the psychology behind that.īut, what I don’t know is that the artists that she’s listening to at 22, if she’ll still be listening to them at 42, the way people who, when I was 22, are listening to me, are still paying to see me 30 years later. ![]() When I hear what my daughter listens to, it resonates with her on a level that I’m not sure our music ever did to these kids, maybe because they’re consuming it in such great amounts, and maybe that’s because it’s free. You know, maybe the challenge is that you can really work the hell out of a computer, or you can really put some loops together, some beats together, which most musical purists would look at as being not talented.īut, I don’t look at it that way, because what they do is something that I cannot do, and if they can do it and I can’t, then maybe they’re a talent in a different way than I am. I think there’s what singers like myself sometimes get mixed up in, where “if people don’t sing like us, they don’t play like us, then it’s not music and it’s not talent.” Whereas, nowadays, younger artists can somewhat DIY with what they want to do.īM: It’s maybe a different challenge. ![]() SMN: And that segues into what I wanted to talk about, which was when you came up in the industry in the 1990s, you went around and had to hustle for a record deal. Moving forward, just doing the things that are the most important. really picking and choosing the times to be out and the shows to do, more than just doing everything that’s on my plate. I’m not sure that I’ll ever be able to dive in the way I had before, because now I’ve seen that it’s not as life-ending and important as it used to be. SMN: So, you’ve maybe recalibrated or reevaluated what you want moving forward as a professional artist?īM: Oh, absolutely. It was horrible for people who were sick and we understand that, But, for us, we really took this to the time as a family to be together and to make the best of it. This isn’t to say that we’re making light of the fact that people have lost folks and dependents. We’ve been able to travel and see them, and do some other things we wouldn’t normally get to do. In the midst of, we graduated one child in high school, another one from college. We spend time in our home, which we never do when you’re gone every weekend, singing somewhere - it makes it tough. Sliding into a booth at The One Stop, a storied basement music venue in the heart of…
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