AMATEURS Ask permission. PROFESSIONALS Do. Amateurs are afraid they’re going to ruffle feathers, they’re afraid they won’t have success, they want everyone to feel good about them. Professionals know this is an impossibility. Sure, there are amateurs who don’t ask and do heinous things, but they usually don’t even see the landscape to begin with. […]

TRUTH In the land of the phony it’s your responsibility to speak from the heart in an unfiltered way. If you’re second-guessing the audience, you’re already in trouble. Put the beer company in your song and you’ve lost credibility, and credibility is key to believability and longevity. It’s your duty to reach down into the […]

Why has she sold six times as many albums as her competitors in the marketplace? Last night I went to dinner at BOA with seven others. For those unfamiliar with the territory, BOA is a steakhouse on the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, it sits astride Sunset Boulevard in a high rise housing […]

INCREDIBLE! I can see you in the morning when you go to school “Crime Of The Century.” That’s the album we used to take to the stereo store, to demo the products, to decide what we wanted to buy, that’s what I’m listening to right now on Sonos via Deezer Elite. Actually, there’s that sound […]