iambenfolds

Generally a pretty damn good scotch.

Nope. But nobody ever took one from me. That was Darren's lyric - true story from the night his girlfriend dumped him... after he had bought her dinner. He was pissed.

That was Summer of Summer B. She happened to be my room mate as well. I recently saw her and she's just the same.

Absolutely! I used to have that everything I ever did went up on YouTube but it's useful, especially for remembering what I've made up on stage. The concerto on the new album... I have to revisit the music once a month, so I carry the score. It leaves my brain - too many notes - who the hell wrote that shit?

Nashville offered me a commission to compose a concerto. Then we sold out show after show, for a piece of instrumental music. That is true support, encouragement to dumb nothing down and to keep pushing and learning. Not every city does that for their local artists.

Yeah, I enjoy the ambiguity and freedom of writing a character and using first person. Some of course is a part of me. Some is completely made up. I always assume people are smart enough to know when I'm writing a douche character, but that's not a safe assumption and I'm often disappointed in myself to be offended when someone calls me a misogynist for instance, because I wrote a few nasty characters. But hey, I asked for it because I was playing with that dynamic when I wrote, so I need to suck it up. The only bad thing would be someone drawing inspiration from a character that I wrote that was a horrible person. I'm sure that's rare. Anyway, people ARE smart - never write down to them. And never write down to your characters. There's good and bad in everyone. I think that's a good and hard thing to remember when creating fiction.