i started this album in (i believe) october of 2009. i had already been doing music for a while but it was all stuff for other people that they would be adding stuff to (vocals mostly). i never really had the opportunity to completely oversee a body of work from start to finish and have 100% control over the content, style, and deadline. so i decided i would make an album of standalone instrumental tracks so that i could really experience what it was like to have total control over the music that i was making. the name CHASING STARS stems from a song i wrote maybe 2 years ago. i had been thinking about possible artist names for myself because i wanted this to be totally separate from my beats i was doing for other people. i happened to be reading through one of my old notebooks and the line jumped out at me:

"....and i'm gonna make it far. and I can spend my nights dreaming, chasing stars."

so from that point i went forward with the album under the name CHASING STARS. the album however still needed a title. now, at this point in my life i was going through a lot, as most kids that age are. it was my senior year in high school and i had really just recently decided that i was going to forgo college for the foreseeable future so i could work and focus on music. naturally this left me with a lot of uncertainty about the future. i wasn't going to follow the traditional game plan of graduation and 4 years of college. honestly, i was scared. i started out on the album without a name for it but, as i was writing, my uncertainty of the future was just pouring into everything without me really consciously noticing. i think it was a conversation with my girlfriend that finally brought me to the realization that i was just really really scared. i laid in bed that night and just thought about everything and that's when the title honestly just popped into my head. (i wish i had a better story for that one haha) but at this point in my life, clinical anxiety was driving my already-high stress level through the roof and i was beginning to wear out. i still believe that a lot of prayer along with this album is what kept me sane through that period. hopefully that gives you a little bit better idea of how this whole thing came about.

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