Naive hope fails, purpose prevails.

My neighbor is a songwriter, he has a publishing deal, has gotten songs cut a number of Gospel and Country acts,and he still has to work two days a week at restaurant to pay the bills. But he loves what he does five days a week, and two days a week doing something you don't love beats five or six right?

I walked into a meeting my old roomates were having with the guy who mixed Kansas' big record, you know the one with "Carry On My Wayward Son". And they introduced me, told him a bit about what I do. And he looked at me and said, "this is a hard business you know." I'm not sure if he was warning me or commiserating. I'll call it empathy for my egos sake.

This is a hard business. It's a place where you can have national radio play and still be eating ramen for lunch. It's a business that people who are out of it assume your rich, people who are in it are jaded and think you want something, and people trying to get are left with a daily decision to move forward or give up.

This is what I tell my artists, you have to know what is at the root of your entrance into this field, what is at the core of your desire, so that when it gets tough you have more than naive hope...you have a purpose.

j.