Someone asked me why I titled the CD “Soundtrack To Life, Love and Drugs”, in a strangely disapproving manner. I knew what she was really asking, with that sour puss looking face- ‘Why did you name your album after drugs?” First, tell me otherwise, but I believe the “Life” part of title is quite self »
I was sure that I was going to receive hate mail/comments on this song, given that Molly Ringwald has such a dedicated fan base, but this song was never meant to be derogatory. Molly is simply a symbol of an era in which I grew up. This song is about being young and believing that »
Middle Of The Sun is really a personal song. I find myself jumping the fence of being a hermit and being a social butterfly all the time. You see this with a lot of entertainers (especially with my comedian friends- those people are dark), where they pull out all the stops doing their performances but »
Writing about the lyrics of Lucky Stars is probably going to be anti-climatic, since it’s really just a playful use of words. You have me applying a number of negative adjectives about love, as if I am talking to Love (as a noun), and then submitting to Love at the end of the song. It »
The idea came to me when I was in Manhattan (New York). Walking along the sidewalk, I came across a very large billboard in Time Square which said “Every __ seconds a women is beaten”. Just underneath that verbiage was an advertisement for Garth Brooks. Why is Garth Brooks important. Well, there’s the stereotypical coincidence »
As the album title would suggest, all the songs are about life, love and drugs. Believe it or not, Wine And Cigarettes is about drugs…. Basically, I was going out with a women whose sister was Heroin addict at the time. The song is mostly about her, but I watched the addiction affect her family »
