I started actively listening to music when my sister brought home a bunch of records that had melted on her dorm room heater at college. Eagles Live, Cars’ Heartbreak City, Rolling Stones, all warped but still listenable. It was hard to find people to expand my musical horizons in my hometown of San Antonio; mostly just listened to the radio & played along on the piano while everyone else in high school went mudding in their pickups.
At college, Elvis Costello, The Police, & Genesis. People say I mostly sound like a combination of these three, but my music is a little more microcosmic; each song is a big description of a detailed event, an intense emotion. I don’t really play or write like a piano man, though piano is my axe – I wind up hitting the keys really hard, like I wished I played guitar.
In LA now, writing, recording, performing. Mostly write music at home on the piano & lyrics on planes, striving to come up with songs as good as those of my heroes.