I was a TV news reporter for many years. I was fortunate to work alongside some of the industry’s most talented photographers. We documented the complex and extraordinary aspects of everyday life. I specialized in politics but I also covered my fair share of crime, courts and natural disasters. There was wiggle room for creative storytelling along the way. I viewed those more esoteric projects as my reward for hard work. This phase of my career involved solving problems under constant, extreme deadline pressure. This is how I learned to convert stress into creativity while writing with directness, efficiency and clarity. Journalism still informs everything I do.

From a practical standpoint, all those years working under constant deadline pressure taught me how to convert stress into creativity. I learned to write for the masses with directness and clarity. All of this has a huge influence on my work in the music business today.