RICK CARNES

RICK CARNES

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Songwriter & President of the Songwriters Guild of America

Songwriters create the meaning in people’s lives. When you’re married, you have a song. When you fall in love, you have a song. At a funeral, they play a song. When people go off to war, they’re singing a war ballad. Songs create the meaningful moments in people’s lives. People bookmark the moment they met and kissed for the first time with a song. Songs are the bookmarks of your life. Your life is not going to have those meaningful moments cemented into your heart and soul without those songs. That’s a critically important job. That’s worth paying for.

KOVACS

KOVACS

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Award-winning Singer-Songwriter

I like the dark. I don't like the darkness actually. Everybody has parts of darkness in themselves, and I feel that my creations have always come out of a dark place, from that sense of being alone, feeling alone, feeling misunderstood for being the person I am, too extravagant and sometimes too much for people. This is a way to help myself deal with it, to give it a place somewhere in my mind where it's okay.