What things do you do to care for yourself at home while not touring, to ensure you fill your creative well?

I think a lot of what we’re doing in creative practice is communicating our understanding of mental, emotional, and spiritual worlds. The day by day, sometimes moment by moment, maintenance of these worlds can be exhausting… and embarrassing. So what do I do? I do my best.

How do you cope with “post tour blues” as we like to call it, is it even a thing you experience?

Ha! My blues are agnostic to whether I’m touring or not. But I have morning rituals, hygiene routines, prayers, exercises, readings, and relationships at hand that help me so much. The trick is to remember.

What does daily life look like for you currently? Do you have a day job?

This is my whole life. Managing, funding, and distributing myself. It’s a lot of writing, arranging, rehearsing, recording, emails, egos, meetings, negotiations, designing, printing, pressing , producing, promoting, aaand repeat…  It’s a lot of faith in the integrity of my relationships and impact of these songs. I love the people I work with.

What are your financial goals in playing music? Are they different from when you first started out?

I want to generate enough passive income to provide for myself, my family, and invest in other community focused ventures.

Why do you choose this life? What do you get out of it?

I do not choose this life more than I choose to breathe. This is an extension of my identity and I’ve just come to accept it. If anything, it’s more of a responsibility that I uphold and am grateful for.

Have you thought about quitting music? What prompted it and what ultimately caused you to want to continue?

Absolutely. It’s the martyr’s quest. It’s the hero’s journey. But I know no know other way.

Stress and Bliss. What are they for you while touring?

Stress: Where are we sleeping tonight?
Bliss: Having a really awesome place to sleep at night.

What’s a tour memory that was bad in the moment, but you can laugh about now?

Last tour, Reid was studying for an important music history exam so for many hundreds of miles, across deserts and mountains and what have you, we were tetris’d into his mother’s SUV mainlining Gregorian chants for hours!

Why do you create?

I can’t help it. But the reason I share what I create is to contribute something helpful to the culture that can aid in relationships with yourself, with your environment, lovers, rivals, authorities, etc.

What rituals do you have before sitting down to create?

When I want to write a song, I say my prayers and go to bed with my guitar. Right before I fall asleep, I start to play myself out a little lullaby.