Hello Gerald,
Allow me to welcome you to the group. My name is OD and I'm a "Musicaholic".
Like you, I too started out using music to calm my nerves at first; until music took over and I was spending my time looking for
my next song, and stealing lines from my family and friends, as they spoke.
I have hawked my most valuable possesions to live in the streets long enough to buy a ticket to a show from the scalper dealing their merchandise on the street corner.
I once knew a fellow music junkie that climbed in the back of a police cruiser by choice (some say by mistake), because he recognized the taxi was called to take him to a friends house for an intervention.
I have attended many songwriters AA meetings (Average Anonymous) and heard every excuse for not being allowed into the Nashville's inner circles.
My mentor and sponcer "The MAB" has spoken many times to help us all with our addiction. He has even recited the groups prayer for us to follow that goes:
The Creativity Prayer:
God grant me the creativity
to re-write lines my co-writers will not change;
courage to fetch their coffee;
while they gain wisdom that I can
OD