HERE’S A shocker for you—famous people are liars.
We lie about how much we do yoga and how much we do coke and tell people we were on a retreat when we mean we were in rehab.
But the music is honest.
When we’re onstage, we’re wearing makeup and outfits specially selected by someone whose job it is to convey things about us through clothing. It’s the work of several people just to light the band properly. Everything is deliberate.
Everything has to be deliberate, because the performers are raw and exposed. Performing live, doing it well, requires vulnerability and trust.
Someone once told me all good stories are true. It’s the same with music. If your song doesn’t come from a place of honesty, it’s probably not very good. It might be fun, it might be catchy, it might even win you a Grammy. But it won’t resonate with an audience the way a true story will.
The problem is that sometimes the truth will break your heart.