Jam!: Amp Your Team, Rock Your Business

Chapter 14. No Particular Place to Go

So you've left your old life, the one you've known for decades. What defines you now? And how long are you going to keep hanging around the house?

That first day out of the band, I couldn't stop thinking that what I'd known all my adult life was gone. All I could focus on was what I'd lost. Those first few months when I was at home without a place to go, an album to record, or a song to write, I wasn't quite sure what to do with myself. Certainly it was great fun being with my family, particularly my young daughter. But I'd spent more than two decades in the write-record-tour cycle, so I was at a loss for how to live a different life.

At the heart of the problem was the fact that I didn't know how to define ...