It’s a blessing to have a relationship to a song that is made stronger through a relationship with the person who wrote that song.

Many of my songwriting friends have been recording and releasing music over the last couple of years, and those songs hold as much resonance for me as the more lauded ones I listened to as teenager do.

I want the best for my friends, and for the success of their songs. And some of those songs are brilliant, and deserve a wider audience.

But whether or not that happens, thank you for the music.