DD: How do you come u with songs? What motivates you to write?
Sable: Sometimes my brother Chris will get an idea, or a feeling, or a phrase that sparks the urge and he will start a song, and I'll come in later and help him polish it. Sometimes it is me and I have an experience or a memory that starts the songwriting process and he comes in later and helps me refine the song. We help each other out with the music or the lyrics, whatever needs tweaking.
Songs are about life. Song writing is just the I choose to express it, what I'm feeling....what I experience. There is so much that happens in everyone's lives, I'm just lucky enough to have an outlet (songwriting) to express it. Sometimes I can write a song in twenty minutes, sometimes Chris and I struggle for a year to get it down like we want it. Sometimes we record a song and then later after listening to it for a while re record it because we know we can make it better.
DD: What instruments have you learned to play? What is your favorite and what instrument would you like to be able to play.
Sable: I'm a string guy mostly. I play guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo....string instruments. And I can play a little piano. I'd love to be able to play steel guitar, but I won't be trying it anytime soon. The steel guitar is one of the most complex instruments there is to play. You're doing something with all your limbs. There are strings to play with a bar, while you pick the strings with the other hand....using your feet on the pedals and then when you are trying to bend the sound you have to push this lever with your knee. I'd love to play one, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
DD: Being an artist has a lot of good times associated with it. But do you ever have bad times that make you give it all up?
Sable: Sure, this is a tough business. There are all kinds of bad times.... bad people....shit happens! There is so much you have no control of. Like earlier in the interview we talked about the name SABLE. We sweated our guts out to put out our first CD on a new label, and labored in the studio, in mixing and mastering the CD trying to get it perfect. We put it out there and the radio promo people come back to us with radio programmers giving them crap and resisting playing the single because they didn't like the name. It makes you want to go "what the f--
And that's just one of many examples. People that tell you that you have no talent....even when they know you do. Getting stiffed on pay when you perform. The list goes on and on. But the bottom line is nobody succeeds if they give up. You've got to pick your butt up off the floor, dust off your jeans and get back up there on the stage and go on.
DD: Let's talk about GROUPIES! What is the wildest thing that groupies have done to get your attention?
SABLE: Let's not talk about groupies. They might talk too! Let's just say that women can be very creative when they want your attention and we'll leave it at that.