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1^st 3- You’ve never had to do anything else, have you? You’ve had a musical background; your parents were both professional musicians.

Right; I had some high school jobs (like selling ice cream), but as soon as I started bringing my PA everywhere and my tip jar, I never looked back after that.

1^st 3- We get a strong sense of spirituality from your music. Is your faith spiritual or religious? Is your aim for your listeners to connect spiritually with the music?

I was raised a Catholic. As I grew up, I went on my own journey. I still hold on to part of that. God has become so big for me I don’t know what to name him or her. I started to go to other churches and the things that resonated with me have become part of my practice. Things I don’t believe in, I try to let them fall. Talking about spirituality is like dancing about architecture- how do you really talk about it? But whatever it is, it’s been there since the beginning- it pulls me into it. I try to go towards the light; I believe in a benevolent love that is behind everything. It’s with me wherever I go.

1^st 3- We can feel that through your music… Thinking about ‘Shaky Bridges’, was that about the integrity of your writing (“I’ll write a song I’ll never sing…”)

The genesis of that song is: I was really into the publishing world for a long time and there were moments, songs, I wrote just for commercial purposes… which isn’t a bad thing

1^st 3- Everyone has to pay the rent, right?

That song also means a lot more than that… the muse is a real thing and I don’t want to sully my relationship with her…

1^st 3- Tell me more about your muse- who or what is she?

Like the angels, the muse can be a lot of things. My wife or my daughter for sure but I also think there is a muse- like God. The muse to me is an interesting topic because it used to be a metaphor and now I believe it to be a true thing. I don’t know what it is; maybe it’s the same thing as God. Talking about the craft of songwriting – which I practise every day and try to get better at- the more I do it, I feel like more of my job these days is finding a quiet place where I can receive the gift of the song: that’s the muse.

1^st 3- Thinking about ‘The Demolition’, when you got rid of the ‘bad stuff’, there’s a line in that song where you ‘let the bad stuff die’. How did you change your paradigm? Was it the music or your mind change that came first?

The mind, soul and body

1^st 3- So your music is part of that- a direct response to your emotions?

Yes

1^st 3- You started ‘folky’ in the early days of songwriting, and then all the other styles came. But the bigger themes of love, loss, emotion, intimacy and the stories you tell are a golden thread throughout. Is there a shift between the emotions and the stories- have they moved a little bit more towards your internal experiences? Has jour musical journey been a response to anything or a deliberate shift?

It’s about the singing. It’s about what comes to me in the writing room. It’s not a direct response to anything apart from what comes natural. As for the genre changes, I feel like there’s so many I love they just ‘pop out’ and of course, you go to Nashville, you’re going to write a Country song. As for my upbringing, folk/Americana are not that far apart. Growing up with two parents who are folk musicians, the song being the bedrock; that’s the thing that doesn’t change.