When I was in my teens, I wanted to play piano. We didn't have one; my parents couldn't afford one, or the lessons or transportation. When I was 16 I got a guitar for Christmas. The rest as they say is history. I never was as good a player as I wanted to be, but thankfully the guitar is the most versatile and expressive instrument ever invented bar none. As it turns out, I never could get the drift of playing bass and lead on the piano anyway. But I was a really good rhythm player....and guitar opened up songwriting to me...and what I was it turns out, was a writer. And I loved guitar playing...it was like sex for me...only better! A guitar will go anywhere, do anything, take you anywhere your mind can imagine...and when it was in my hands it was love, it was sensual, it was my soul, it was like caressing a woman as my fingers ran over the strings and frets....and it let me write and express myself. If it weren't for music in general when I was a teenager, and the time I spent listening to Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitte, Donovan, Hendrix, Rita Coolidge, I honestly don't think I would have survived it. Music kept me sane and full of hope. All I ever wanted to do with my music was reach other people in their private places. Performing was a rush when things were flowing between me and the audience...no greater feeling on this earth...but as incredible a thing as that is, it was not the most important thing to me. Communicating was. I had my shots and runs at the music industry in Nashville and LA in many ways...and they were fun, but what really mattered to me was writing and communicating in the way that only music an. So...I write and keep working at it. Music connects people who will never meet, uniting them in the most profound and unforgettable manner, in a place they cannot see nor touch, but that they can feel as nothing else. What kind of a miracle is that?