My upcoming album Day to Day is a huge step for both my career and personal growth. Since college I’ve set goals for myself and timelines for meeting those goals, and I’ve tried to meet all of them right on track. I’ve been so big-picture focused since I decided to pursue music and now that I’m deeper into my career, I get tired of being the “big-picture” guy all the time and find myself trying to slow down and take life day to day. After years of living one way, the concept of living day to day and just staying in a present moment is not something I do well. But there are reminders all around me – things like a spinning ceiling fan, a jolly rancher sitting on a table, a dream about visiting Italy, a glass of wine accidentally knocked over. At least once a month on a gig I’m bound to spill a glass of wine and when that happens (as long as it’s not destroying expensive equipment!) I can choose to get upset with myself and be filled with regret over the damage done or I can choose to accept that it’s just another thing that happens every now and then in our day to day lives. We all spill our metaphorical glasses of wine every now and then and it’s important to allow ourselves to just be in that present moment. After deciding which songs I wanted to include on this album it became very clear that the one thing they each had in common was that they were all inspired by day to day life and everything that that encompasses – both the mundane and the extraordinary, the melancholy and the ecstatic.