I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
BRETT DENNENNature inspires me because it’s so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
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I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain – that is the most inspiring thing.
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When you get to say something in a song you’re not directing it necessarily at one person. When it’s in a song it’s easier to get it out. I don’t really worry so much about it when I’m writing a song.
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Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it’s your job to chip away and find out what’s in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.
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I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That’s purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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Things aren’t always as they appear. I’ve been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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Songs don’t really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I’m singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
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I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that’s happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I’m saying.
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Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.
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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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That’s one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.
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People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.
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I can’t really write unless I’m full of inspiration. And even then I can’t write unless I have some alone time.
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