Besides having a talent for connecting heart to heart with her audience from the stage, I think Sara Hickman is one of the most gifted songwriters on the planet. For those songwriters who are visiting these pages she offers this advice:
dear jeff...
hello! thanks for cheesing with me eons ago...please come up and say hello to me when i come to sing in saratoga, ok?
advice for songwriters:
it is better to write down whatever your brain shares with you and let it flow. you can go back later and edit. do not edit while you are flowing.
keep a journal. write letters to everyone you know, in your mind, on paper, on chalk on the sidewalk.
read everything. listen to all kinds of music. draw on napkins in restaurants and stuff the notes into your many pockets. find them later and make up stories, songs, or stuff them back into your pockets for later.
never feel you have to be better than or equal to or as good as. just be yourself. that is the beauty.
no one else can be who you are, feel what you feel, say what you say. even if you think it has been said, YOU haven't expressed it in your own way, and no one else can express "it" like you can, so don't be afraid to add your voice to the chorus.
glorify yourself in the fact that what you create is adding to the world, not subtracting.
what you are writing is wondrous. thank you for sharing yourself, even if only with yourself.
bye, jeff! hope i get to hear your quartet someday!
with respect,
sara hickman
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