I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about the Texas trip in a way that doesn’t sound like a travel blog, because I am not a travel blogger. I’m a songwriter. And the reason this trip matters is because of what it did to the music in my head.

Texas is BIG. I know everyone says that, but you genuinely do not understand the bigness until you are standing in the middle of it. The sky goes on forever. The roads go on forever. The sunsets — oh my goodness, the sunsets — they look like someone turned up the saturation slider on real life.

And I kept thinking: there are songs in this.

Not necessarily songs about Texas. More like… songs that could only have been born in that much quiet, that much space, that much stillness. When you’re in regular life — school pickups, grocery runs, emails, to-do lists — your brain is so full that new ideas can’t find room to come in. The road trip emptied me out a little. And nature abhors a vacuum, so guess what filled back in?

Songs.

I have a whole notepad full. Ideas I’m still working through. Some of them will fit albums I already have in development. Some of them might become something completely new. What I know is that I will be processing this trip through music for months, and you’ll hear it eventually even if you can’t see it yet.

That’s the thing about being a songwriter. Nothing is ever wasted. Every experience, every conversation overheard at a truck stop, every landscape that takes your breath away — it all goes into the bank, and eventually it comes out as a song.

What in your life has surprised you by becoming creative inspiration? I love hearing these stories. Drop them in the comments.

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