The Creative Process Is Like a Plant..

My interviewing process consists of sitting across from someone that I admire musically.  Most people in this world are connectors for me and also for you.  Not that it is wise to use people but to use them as connectors is the fundamental idea of networking.  You get within an industry that exists, that you want to break into.  You can't be shy, you have to be trusting to this process unfortunately people are only as good as their face value.  Most people think their face value is actually better then it will turn out to be.   Everyone'sidea of themselves is bias because of course we don't say the bad and the ugly we say the hopeful and polished truth.  A truth that one can only communicate not that they can show me a record of all the times that they helped an old lady cross the street or held the door open for a woman.  They can't show me the common decency that I can only hope we all have.  No, this is unrealistic and part of the frustration.

You must always give credit to the ones that paved the way, any way for the next.  When you have a vision and hold it with promise and faith that to you its real, this is all that's needed.  Then the people almost get attracted to you because now you are aware enough to look for it, seek it out.  You get signs all around you, signs you may have never noticed before.  Its a beautiful process, not always easy but part of the journey.  You take it in stride, turn to the ones that love and support you and continue on.  I love the interviews because they open another realm of this process that I may not have understood/noticed before.  Its one giant brainstorm, this is essential to the creative process .  The creativeness is like a plant, you water it and thrives you neglect it and it dies.  You nurture it and give it what it needs, take the needs a way and you have no plant.  It dies, you replant it.  It grows vines and you find a wall for the leaves to cling to.  Any good idea needs people, every great idea needs nurturing.  Its within this process that most give up, doubt sets in.  Fear, anxiety, lack of confidence and a shyness to your surroundings happens here.  Its those that prevail that make it to the next step.  This is where one becomes stubborn, solid within the doubt only creating more strength.  Watch anyone with an idea fail here, when little did they know that this was just the beginning.  A test, a test to see if they really do want it.  Prevail and see what happens.  In everything you do realise that the bad comes with good, the indecent comes with the decent and that beauty comes with the ugly..otherwise how would we know the difference.  We have to understand both side of the coin, the contrast.  This is life.  Then you decide what to do with it.  Grow it or kill it, become it or run from it..breath life into it or watch it die in front of you.

When I get to sit with very talented musicians, I come with open admiring eyes.  In the moment I am not less to them, in that moment they haven't created more then I.  When you come with a pure good intent to learn, who would not want to teach?  NYC may be competitive but not when you have created something organically your own then its on a creative level.  This should be shared.  So I can't assume that everyone is whom they say they are but I am believer that I will know the difference.