Pink Paper

I love the feeling of singing a song on stage and knowing that I wrote it just for me, and that sometimes there's a history behind it...a true personal story. For example, when it's nostalgic, or was written while sitting in middle school math class, or on my bedroom floor as a very shy teenager surrounded by a mess of notebooks and lose pieces of pink paper filled with scribbled-out lines or words.

Throughout my songwriting history, my lyrics have been written on a multitude of different colored and styled pieces of paper:

Blue, yellow, and green post-it notes. These are easiest to lose and are mostly used for very simple lyric ideas which, a lot of the time, turn into full-fledged musical compositions. Tragically, a greater number of these post-it ideas aren't as fortunate in life, and remain where they started: Stuck to some other unfortunate piece of scrunched and scribbly paper, and imprisoned for all eternity in the dark, chilly confines of my bottom-left desk drawer, never again to see the light of day.

These days my technological method of writing lyrics has changed with the times, as I'm writing some of my lyrics on my laptop. I've written on a paper plate, a restaurant paper table covering, on back of supermarket receipts, a napkin, and even an airplane vomit bag. But aside from all that I prefer to stick to the old-fashioned approach to writing. The tried, true, and timeless method: Taking a notebook, turning to the next clear page, and just writing and scribbling and circling and making arrows and underlining and doodling and scratching out with a simple pen.

Sometimes my songs are winners, sometimes they're losers, and sometimes they're confused little wannabes lacking that inherent X Factor.

However, as long as they're my own words, that's all that matters to me, be they written on baby blue, fluorescent green, sunshiny yellow, girly violet, plain ol' white or Barbie Doll pink paper.

xo

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