When I’m not in a therapy session, I’m making music. I don’t have a career as a professional performer, though. I have a musical practice that I pursue in the larger context of mental health self-care.
With that in mind, I’m sharing this interview that the author Rick Moody conducted with me for Salmagundi Magazine. Although it was prompted by the release of my debut album, we talk about so much more.
I recall my teen years as a lonely only child—spending at least 10,000 hours at the piano and learning how, in the absence of actual parenting, to parent myself through music.
Also, I elaborate on the ways that composing and performing music are an extension of my work as a therapist, including the story of a song I wrote that grew directly out of a series of music therapy sessions with an Alzheimer’s patient, which I chronicled for Vox.
I’m especially thankful to Rick for his lack of interest in the inside-baseball trivia that plagues so many musician interviews. This is an article about the ways that music is an essential part of life. You can read the interview here.
