Waiting has a few different inspirations. I started writing it about 6 months after I had released my last album, Little Red Box. I was looking to go in a slightly different direction from where it was at. I was listening to more alternative rock and alt pop music. So musically it has a bit of that influence. I came up with the drums first then added a mixture of jazz rock and pop in the chord voicings. I also used an Arp 2600 synth from the 70s, along with an electric piano. For the bass, I called my ConFunkShun band mate, Eric EQ Young, who is an amazing funk bass player. He seemed to know exactly what I wanted and what the song needed. So he introduced that heavy melodic solid bass part. Of course, I had to add some tasty percussion because I'm a percussionist and it's my goal to re-introduce real percussion to popular music. At least in all of MY music! There's also a hint of country music too. I grew up listening to all this stuff and it just came out while writing this song.

The story of writing the lyrics came from when I used to rent DVDs from my local video store, before it closed sadly. I would rent ones I had never seen before but weren't current. One day I rented August Rush and it inspired the lyrics to Waiting. Just like the movie, Waiting is about someone trying to find their light in the world, their success. In an autobiographical sense, it's about a person who has been trying to make it but for one reason or another hasn't found their stride, mainly because of themselves. It tells a story of someone who has decided to stop letting their inhibitions get in the way of living life to the fullest. That was me several years ago. The first lyric line of the song "There's a burning ember deep down in my soul, it's better late and found than never at all" is a combination of the way I feel and the way the main character in the movie felt. The song in a way tells the story of me searching for my groove in life and finally finding my path, my voice. While I am still growing and learning, I feel like I'm really hitting my stride in my career and that things are really happening because I've found my voice. Anyway, I hope that Waiting inspires the listener to find their voice and not let fear keep them from living their full potential. I hope you enjoy the rest of my "Love Is" album. Thanks so much for asking me to tell this story.