Dear fans

This letter is something I’ve been wanting to write for a while. There are so many things that just won’t fit into 140 characters. 

Let me say once again thank you. I know I’ve said it a lot and I will continue to say it for as long as I live. I am truly grateful for you and the support you’ve given me. I don’t know where my career will go next. I may be able to do this for the rest of my life or I might have to find something else to do, I don’t know. But whatever happens I will always know that I have been blessed these last few years far more then I ever deserved. 

I want to let all of you who have supported me from day one know that I am still that guy. I’m still the guy who you saw on idol. I’ve just grown up a little. I’ve learned a lot over the past few years about what I want and don’t want in this industry. I want to get to perform for people. I want the chance to play and sing music that I write and that really matters to me. I don’t want to worry about what other people may expect me to do. So I’m not going to.

I know who I am and what I believe. That hasn’t and isn’t going to change. I know that I have been given the chance to have an impact on people’s lives and I take that incredibly seriously. One of my biggest goals in life is to be a good influence on the people who are looking up to me. I am not and never will be perfect. I just hope that when I do mess up that I will be able to get back up and let other people learn from my mistakes.

I have gotten to know many of y’all over the past few years and y’all are crazy and random and funny and some of the most loyal people I’ve ever met. I am deeply humbled by the love y’all have shown me. I know sometimes things get pretty busy and I can’t interact with you the way I have in the past. But please don’t ever think that it’s because I have forgotten about you! I haven’t and never will! 

I’m going to keep working as hard as I can. I am not to worried about the end result because I know that it is in God’s hands not mine. Whatever happens in the next few years know that no matter what. I love y’all and I will always believe in y’all the way you have believed in me. 

God Bless!

Tim

Some people might think that you write songs for the same reason that you perform songs. And for some that might be true. But not for me. I sing and perform because I love to and it’s incredibly fun and people seem to really enjoy it. I have always enjoyed performing other peoples songs because there are a lot of great songs out there. As for writing though, I do that for different reasons. 

I write songs because I want to say very specific things. I want to give people a kind of picture of how I look at the world. I don’t think that I am the best song writer that has ever lived and as likely as not I will never be looked at as one of the greats. That’s ok with me! It’s not about that. For me, it is about sharing with the world how I feel about certain things. When I write a love song I’m not trying to write it for the sake of “writing a love song.” No I write love songs because I have very strong feelings about what I think about love and how I think it should look. Or how I want it to feel. Or maybe because I saw two people that looked so deeply in love that I couldn’t help but try and paint that picture with words. I don’t always succeed with my songs. I have notebooks full of songs that I couldn’t find the words to finish. And more with songs that I finished but I didn’t think really captured what I was wanting to say. You don’t always know how a song is going to turn out until it’s done and you look back on it. It can be a very frustrating process at times. I can sit and write three songs in a day or I can go months without ever finishing a song that I think is worth singing. Still I will continue to try and capture in words what I think about the world. I will try and paint pictures as best I can with the letters in my head. 

I write because I feel, because I hope, because I dream, and because I believe.