I hope that someday millions of people will buy or stream my music.  If that happens, thousands will want to contact me.  I don’t want them to.

I would love to read e-mails telling me what a great singer I am and how much they love my songs.  But I would also get a lot of e-mails from haters telling me how horrible I am.  The negative e-mails would hurt me a lot more than the positive e-mails would make me feel good.

If you really love my music, you’ll probably buy the 3 books I have for sale on Amazon.  If you read the books carefully, you’ll be able to figure out where I live.  You’ll send me a letter by snail-mail. There will probably be so few of them that I’ll have time to answer them.  I don’t think the haters will go to that much trouble.

Back in the 80s, I saw a brilliant singer who was unknown at the time, but went on to win a Grammy in the 90s.  She was the opening act at the Turning Point in Piermont.  What struck me was how intelligent she sounded talking to the audience between songs.  So I came back to see her when she was the headliner a few months later.

At the end of her first set, she stood in the back of the room selling cassettes.  I gave her $8, shook her hand, and said,”I really like your music.”

What more was there to say?