To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.
Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.