We just started watching a new series on Netflix called Abstract. The first episode follows Christoph Niemann to get an idea of his process and inspiration. What started as a ‘let’s watch this during dinner’ turned in to ‘where is my note pad I need to write this down!’. Christoph said a couple really powerful things,…

Have you ever heard the saying “It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission”? That’s a mind set and I may even go as far to say that it’s a personality type. While I was growing up, until sometime in the middle of my high school career, I was very much a ‘ask permission’ type of…

Last year I spent as much time as I ever have writing, recording, and producing music. I also put out 1 song in the entire year. It was the first single from my band DAMS and our album Icarus. There are somewhere between 35-50 other tracks/songs/snippets that made their way out of my brain and…

From the same panel last year came another interesting thought about working together. This one was from Bryan Michael Cox and was specific to the ‘freshman class’ of music in 2016. As an aging dude (what some may call an ‘old head’) it’s easy for me to hate on what the next generation is doing.…

When looking at others that are successful, we rarely see the dirt and grime they went through to get themselves there. We only see the shine that comes from that success. How often do we fall out of routine, making it hard on ourselves to stay on point with our exercise, or eating habits, spending…

To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing it’s best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting. – E. E. Cummings I received a book as a gift called “The little book of wisdom for fine young men”. This is…