"When I was in grade nine, I went on a bus trip with the French Club from my high school, to Quebec City. (The only reason for joining the French Club and enduring the weekly meetings was to go on this trip!) There was a guy on our bus with a guitar, and I noticed that he spent the whole trip playing songs, with all the cute girls surrounding him in rapt attention. From that moment on, I decided I wanted to be a songwriter.

My family had to endure my learning the guitar in the backseat with my sister and newborn brother on our family trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (and back). My first song learned was "Ticket To Ride" by the Beatles. My sister has since forgiven me for the numerous times I bapped her in the head with my guitar neck. The scars have pretty much disappeared.

Since that time, I've written hundreds of songs. Songs for friends, songs about girlfriends I wish I had, or lost. Songs about travelling, songs about things I had no idea what they were about.

Later, as I developed my craft, I used songwriting to mark occasions in my life. Songs about passages -marriage, the birth of children, , relationships with parents, grandparents, marking moments in time. Songwriting has been a process that crystallizes what life means to me -a prism for joy and grief, and a window into how I see the world. I hope these songs resonate with you. That is my greatest reward as a songwriter."