It's Magic.

When I was fourteen I was lucky enough to fall in love with a TV show called “Chuck” that had amazing music in it. As I watched the show I began to realize that though I loved the show and it’s characters it was the music in it that really impacted me.

Suddenly something inside of me changed. I started to realize how music made me feel. How it made me ache. How it made me cry. How it could bring me the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.I remember feeling really free when I first fell in love with music. I was 14 but for some reason I felt like my soul was 100 years old.

Music let me feel things I had never felt, see things that I had yet to experience. The first song I ever fell in love with was Skinny Love by Bon Iver. I distinctly remember listening to this song for about a week straight…ok maybe like a month. Music is in my blood. It makes me feel deeply and it is something that I am grateful for everyday. My favorite lyric in the song is:

“And I told you to be patient

And I told you to be fine

And I told you to be balanced

And I told you to be kind” 

For some reason this spoke to me more than anything in my life ever really has. And THAT right there is why I love music. In my mind one of the most intimate things that someone can do is to bear their soul in song. That may sound cheesy or cliche but it’s true.

That is why I love writing music. Because though I know I will never be famous and that I will never have thousands of fans screaming my name, I do know that I will always have the feeling that playing and listening to music gives me. The feeling that there is something bigger than myself, and that I can do incredible things.