I'm a former U.S. congressman, an attorney, a member of the National Council on the Arts, and a lifelong songwriter and musician. Frankly, I've always been in music more for love than money, though as the music industry has radically changed, the opportunities for most musicians to make any money with their craft have radically shrunk. You can find my musical forays on Spotify, the most popular and diverse platform for musicians to spin their music out into cyberspace. One of my songs has seen upwards of 40,000 Spotify streams, which in the old days would have been a mark of success. But in...
