A songwriter and workshops presenter who has also written a memoir and completed a sitcom pilot based loosely on her life. Among her many writing credits is music done with and for last year’s runner-up on “The Voice,” Meghan Linsey, who she also recently became the manager for. She is also a high-demand wardrobe stylist to artists, actors and other professionals and has been hired by many national brands. She also works as a production coordinator on film and video shoots.
“I’ve found, just from experience, that if you’re writing with an artist, one of two ways, whether you go in with some ideas to throw out there for them, and then also to ask them if there’s something that they want to write about or get off their chest.”
“It was really important for me to be a part of coming home (from Nashville) and gathering my thoughts and my ideas and it gave me kind of a way to let off steam and to be back and be normal and not have to feel like I had to go to everybody’s writers nights and be at every event, so it really was a nice break and it helped me to refresh creatively.”
“I’ve only started doing Skype-writes in the last couple years and, more so, to finish a song. It’s really hard to start a song, I think, over Skype. I really need a personal connection and I love the magic that comes when you’re in a room with someone, whether you know them or you don’t know them, I think that connection is important.”
“I’ve been going to Nashville probably – for 8-10 days – every month for the last, since 2008 or 2009.”
“I have a database of, I don’t know, probably over a thousand ideas with songs half-written/started.”
“To me (writing a sitcom pilot instead of a song) didn’t feel all that much different. It just seemed that the process was pretty much the same, sharing ideas, sharing thoughts, putting down dialogue. But, it just came out in a different form.”
“I think everybody has a story to tell. Everybody’s story is so different, so unique, and I think sometimes we forget how interesting other people’s lives are. And I definitely would encourage people to go ahead, sit down, write an outline (for a book), talk to people about what they think is important about you or what they find interesting and I’d go for it. I think everybody should do that.”
"Believer" (Meghan Linsey)
"Good Boy Bad" (Meghan Linsey)