I was thankful for the opportunity to write this article for Eddy and Rick at Inside MusiCast, until I realized that I would have to try to make sense of a career that makes very little sense. Trying to order steps to achieve some sort of successful livelihood in an unstable and insecure business is actually impossible.

In a way, for me, at its very core is the need for the miraculous. I am still doing what I think I love after 37 years. The reason I say, “what I think I love”, is that much of the time I found myself trying to figure out the ever-changing task of figuring out what someone else wanted to hear. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it would take some of the joy out of the creative process. This is truly a fact that follows anyone through a career in the music business. I used to say that I could count the number of times I was truly satisfied on one hand.

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