Terius Nash, a.k.a The-Dream on Songwriting

I read this article a while ago, and kept meaning to do a post. I always feel like I never have enough time to do everything I want to do, and I keep wanting to make it a priority to do things that make me happy and make me wonder. Here are two quotes about songwriting (and really, the importance of doing things that reaffirm your humanity, that keep you connected to yourself, and to something outside of you that's well, mysterious):

"It's hard to explain. It's definitely more spiritual — why I would be doing music in the first place, if I didn't get goose bumps and stuff? We're so excited, all of us — we're like kids...that just found out that you can mix the packs of Kool-Aid – mix the powder with the sugar, and just eat it straight. We used to do it as kids — I have no idea why we used to do that. But that feeling of childlike – childhood — finding something for the first time."
 - The-Dream

"it feels like the sun is rising, without me having to say that in the lyric.
With music and with harmony it's just one of those things, man. Yeah, I can't even explain it. It just makes me feel alive, I guess."
-The-Dream

For the full article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/19/193538349/the-dream-on-why-we-all-need-r-b

To goose bumps (the good kind), to wonder and to doing things that make us feel alive.

Another Man's Shoes - Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors Lyrics

Loving this song lately - something about the lyrics, the message, the melody. You know, the whole song.

Everyone's got their own set of troubles,
everyone's got their own set of blues. 
Everyone's got their own set of struggles,
walk a mile in another man's shoes.

If you ain't learned that by now,
go ahead and walk another mile.


(For full song lyrics, go here: http://www.lyrics.com/another-mans-shoes-lyrics-drew-holcomb.html)


To walking a mile in someone else's shoes.