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I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.

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Brett Dennen
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: October 28
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Oakdale
California
Brett Michael Dennen
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Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
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It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.
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What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
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I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.
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When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.
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I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.
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The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.
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I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
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It's cool to be healthy now! It's cool to, like, drink fresh juices and drink Kombucha and all that stuff.
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Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?
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I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
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I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
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Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.
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I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they're very thankful. That's one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.
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