I learned that the listener is coming to you because they want you to give them a break away from normality. This dude named SAINt JHN—he’s a great musician. Two years ago he said to me, “[Your music’s] good, but no one cares.” I was like, “Explain that.”
“Everyone’s busy,” he said. “Because [the listener] just got off work. They might hate their wife. They might hate their husband. They might hate their kids. They hate their job. They hate the car. They hate the house. Life’s not perfect. They don’t have time to try to figure out what you’re trying to tell them. You’re just supposed to make them feel better and make them feel good. Put them in a specific space.”
And that’s just something that I’ve been thinking about a lot. Something that I learned from him. I’m just learning how to have a balance of everything within the same space and just not necessarily put a lot of pressure on what we create.(x)