Steve Perry – HuffPost 9.2.14

Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists?

Steve Perry: Work on songwriting. Think about an artful and poetic way to say what you want to say. Say something interesting or that you feel needs to be said. Study the classics, in all genres. Get smarter. Don’t get wrapped up in “music scenes” or “being famous.” Be a writer because you are into music as an art form. Find out what this means. If you aren’t into it because you have to be then please reexamine your life for the good of everybody who will have to listen to your future half assed efforts.