Jonny Two Bags – HuffPost 3.5.14

Mike Ragogna: How do you want to evolve further as an artist?

Jonny Two Bags: I would hope to use the momentum from this and continue making records. I also spend lot of time trying to improve as a player, learning new instruments, styles etc. I’m one of those people that has to work extra hard at music. Lots and lots of woodshedding! I really don’t feel that I possess the kind of inherent skill that I see in a lot of other musicians.

MR: What advice do you have for new artists?

JTB: Just try and keep your motivation pure. Never lose sight of why you started making music in the first place…for fun and for free. If it becomes solely about success and that doesn’t work out you might just abandon it. I almost did once and I realized that my motivation had become so skewed that I really didn’t even deserve the gift of music at all. I’m very lucky to have learned that lesson.