Music.
When people ask me “would you rather lose your hearing or your vision” I always say, "vision - if I lost my hearing, I wouldn’t be able to hear music." The power of music has always been with me. I can feel its might going back far before I was even born. But truly even if I lost both vision and hearing, my connection to music would maybe be even stronger - as music goes beyond our human ears. The song where all songs are birthed from needs none of the human five senses, as it is pure vibration.
Exactly because of this profound power of music, it is a great responsibility to make music.
As with any powerful force, music can heal or harm. Music can evolve us, or devolve us. So I do not make music because I am ‘talented’ or have ‘a unique voice’ or am a ‘good lyricist’, but rather because I feel a call to make music that is medicine, that is evolving.
Words.
I love writing lyrics. The way words come together in unexpected and delightful ways never ceases to amaze me. How I can begin writing without even knowing what the song is about to discover a powerful song emerges. How the words come through me, but are not ‘my ideas’. How the chords and melody can land in the morning, only to soon have the perfectly accompanying lyrics just “download” while on a walk later that day. When it is truly flowing, it is pure magic.
But writing lyrics is equally a great responsibility. I have come to understand intimately how the lyrics of songs are a form of expression that is inextricably connected to how the scribe of those words lives day to day.
My songs arise out of a love of humanity, and a willingness to see and respond in words to what is awry with our world, and to share revelations that help break the chains that bind us.
Love.
I make music in honor of all of this, and to offer out the love that burst forth from my heart of hearts. In the midst of the insanity and suffering in this world we traverse each day, I share with you songs that offer a spaciousness and wisdom that is ageless and timeless and that we all are part of. I record songs that hold reminders about what we truly are
My songs are my love notes to the world.
Humbly and with immense love,
Deborah