The last few years of my life have been filled with questions. Endless, persistent questions. I am driven out of my mind trying to find the answers, and running from them. I find myself obsessed with who I am, what my place is in a world with such horrid cruelty and apathy, and what my place is in the joy that resists it. This album attempts to answer some of those questions, and is kind of an answer in itself. Because maybe, to a certain extent, the asking of the question is the answer to it? I am scared of sounding pretentious but it is, in earnest, how I wrote this record.
I Can See The Future, I hope, will bring the audience in on what I understand of myself and my own life (past, present and my own future,) but it also attempts to present a clear picture of what I believe the world will become outside of me and long after my life ends. I have to believe there is a better world coming and I really do believe that it is, as long as we maintain our determination to bring it about.
My dream is for this project to marry for people what I struggle to reconcile in my own life. The co-existence of the individual life with the international struggle for something different. For me, it will always serve as a reminder that building that world can be infused into everything. That maybe they don’t need to be reconciled, because they are the same. Maybe it is in my relationships, my daily decisions, the way that I chose to see the world, the way I chose to question it, and the simple act of participating in being alive and helping others do the same. After all, to quote the record, “I cannot be human alone.”
