Glue's Artist Statement

Outward action (sometimes called love!) is the sword that will slay today’s dragons of despair. Have the courage to act. Sing, play guitar, and record your music. Run the streets, paint the skies, and write your stories.

Fear confronts you. Act anyway. Love anyway, turning your attention to the hopes and dreams of others. Outward action brings inspiration, vigor, and newness. The newness helps you experience art, nature, and people with the curiosity of a traveler.

Schedule recording sessions and performances on the calendar. You don’t need a large audience. If a song reaches a single individual, then it has touched someone of infinite worth.

Work on original song arrangements, but remember that no matter how much you practice, aging will keep you from becoming a virtuoso. Knowing this helps you avoid the curses of overplaying and comparison. The important thing is to inhabit each song with personal experience. When you transmit sincere feeling, a song becomes a social ligament, a thread of emotional connective tissue.

Some of the songs you sing are sad. Accept sadness and all of life’s other emotions. Despair, not sadness, spawns the dragons. Despair will lead you to see yourself and others through the dark lenses of fear and judgment. A despair for the future will keep you from serving others, eating healthy, exercising, practicing music, and filling notebooks with original stories and songs.

Emotions, like sadness and joy, can coexist. But hope and despair are perspectives, not emotions. The one will exclude the other. By drawing closer to Jesus Christ, anchor your soul with a hope for a better world, a world where you will reunite with the ones you love — a world filled with glorious music!