When I make music I do it because I have to. It’s cathartic. It’s my way of expression and release. Something really moves me and it’s the only way I can cope / vent / deal / explode and get it out of my system. Like many people I came up with a lot of adversity and music became my outlet to channel all of that energy in a less destructive way. Because of that, my writing process has always been strange. Something moves me and I will be up until 6AM still writing even though I have work in an hour because I just can’t stop writing! However, just sit me down in a studio and tell me to write to a beat and the results suck. It’s in-organic. It’s not how MY creative process works.

That being the case my music has always been like a Polaroid to me. An EXACT snapshot in time of a specific emotional and mental state. I get in the lab and painfully, meticulously craft a song so that it feels and captures exactly what I am trying to express right then. When it’s done? Great! I’ve encapsulated the thoughts/emotion, thrown it in a time capsule and I’m done with it. Someday I may dig it up and share the time capsule with people so they can understand and feel what I felt because that carefully crafted song does that so perfectly for me. My goal is to share the emotion, the feeling, the ideas. I want that piece of recording to stand by itself, without me, a totally autonomous piece of raw emotion and expression that can be unleashed when you take the lid off the box.