An excerpt from "The Crowd, the Critic and the Muse" (Appendix 2): A typical conversation I might have on an airplane: Stranger (upon seeing the guitar on my back): Hey, are you gonna play us something? Michael: Ha ha! Maybe, we’ll see! (Note to jokesters: anybody who regularly carries a guitar onto a plane is tired of this joke.)  Stranger: You know, I’m not sure that guitar is going to fit in the overhead . . . Michael (trying to stay nice): Yeah, it does actually. I pla...

We are at a big festival in the UK right now, and as often happens with artists in this situation, I had some press interviews throughout the day.  People in Europe seem to have a courage to speak things as they are, and I was asked more than once about my “problems with Christian music.” It got me thinking. I realized how one-sided I’ve been in this blog.  And by one-sided, I don’t even mean one side of a larger argument, but one side of my OWN argument. I realized how little...