With a smile on your face and some feeling of love in your heart, a quiet soul and hopefully a lifted spirit. It's my job.

I have deeply enjoyed Bruce Springsteen’s thoughts on life and work and after my own road trip and speaking in Ōtorohanga yesterday, these words around work and what we do resonated with me……

“Time moves quickly when you are on the road and I always believed the audience does not pay necessarily to hear their favorite song or to see your aging face again. But they pay for the intensity of your presence, how alive you are on any given evening. That's the beating heart of my job to be there and only there, playing for all the stakes rock and roll has to offer for you in your town on this night. And in doing so, I want to leave you with life's possibilities, with energy to take outside the concert gates and bring into your life. With a smile on your face and some feeling of love in your heart, a quiet soul and hopefully a lifted spirit. It's my job.

I'm left with one shot. It's a quote from Jim Morrison. O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and to perfect our lives”

~ Bruce Springsteen (from Road Diary on Disney)