I’m writing my first full-length album, UGLY, and yesterday I (finally) finished the first demo — meaning, it’s finally ready to get sent to a mixing engineer.

1 song down, 10 more to go.

Very early on in the production process, which officially began about 6 months ago (or a year, but what is Time anyway?), I knew I had been initiated into something enormous. Something so far beyond me, that I would make a fool of myself trying to rationalize or verbalize it. That would be like tr...