Every so often I get a nasty comment on my YouTube videos. I’m lucky they don’t turn into the cesspool of racism and homophobia that many YouTube comment threads do. But when one turns up, I just delete it. Oh yeah, I delete it them with relish. And sometimes mustard. If someone has a legit critique…
Man, I love it when people prove me wrong about who I think they are. In a good way at least. It doesn’t happen nearly often enough, but it did happen the other day. I was standing outside the dressing room waiting for my girlfriend. That’s every guy’s favorite place in the world, right? They…
One of the most common questions I get as a performer is how I’m able to manage to get up in front of a room full of people and talk, sing, and play guitar for an hour without dying of anxiety. It’s been a long-held belief that people fear public speaking more than even death…
Something happened a few years ago that taught me a little lesson about perception. I was at a music convention in Los Angeles. It’s one I’d been to many times before and I knew most of the artists there well. Next door to our convention was some other meeting thing that looked way less interesting. …
I was flying out one time to do a gig and I was at the airport checking my luggage with the porter outside. I got to the front of the line and the porter was a black guy. He looked at me and said, “Don’t hurt me now!” Being that he was a pretty big…
A man stands on a milk crate on a street corner. His tattered cardboard sign proclaims the end is near. By the thousands, people walk by him, completely ignoring the his passion-filled speech. He doesn’t want their money. He’s only trying to change their minds. He believes that he knows things about this life that…
Some people have all the balls they need. Here’s a picture of confidence. I pulled up to a stoplight and on the opposite corner was one of those guys swinging a sign. Now, first of all, he’s swinging a sign for Savers, which is a thrift store. I don’t mean “vintage” clothing. There’s no $100…
