Grayson Russell

Here are the things that I've lived through.

Here are the ones I can communicate that people will believe.

Even though I lived through all this other stuff, they're not going to believe that frigging actor, kid, whatever, actually had to go through X, Y, and Z. And so some of those, you know, I have to let somebody else sing who, you know, people will believe that, you know, they might have lived through.

I hate songwriting.

As much as I love it.

Partly because it takes a great amount of effort for me too, right?

And not because I'm lazy.

I have a very dear friend.

He's 91.

He's the only doctor we had in the county for like 30 years, 20 years.

Well, one of the maybe two that we might have had.

Started as a veterinarian.

Became a people doctor in the 60s.

And he said, my favorite thing about being a doctor was delivering babies.

He said, because that's the only thing that somebody walked in with and come out with something better than they had to begin with.

Wow, that's deep.

He said, that's the only, that was my favorite part.

Yeah.

And that's always been songwriting for me in that I'm walking into this, really, I'm walking out of this relationship or I'm walking through this particularly god-awful situation that I probably got myself into.

And when a song happens to come out of the other end of it, it at least redeems part of that situation.