In a dream this past Sunday night, I was asked to describe to
a class of music students what it was like to be a songwriter. Not how it's
done, or what my process was, but what it meant. Here's what I told them.
It's called songwriting because it's a form of communication,
and one of the most intimate. What songwriters do is lay bare our souls so that
we might touch someone else's.
Yes. I'm way more cool in my dreams than I am in real life.
