Put It in Writing Because Thanks Are the Highest Form of Thought

Friends,

Your support is of immeasurable value to me — it sustains me, and inspires me — reminding me that there is an audience — there is a market — for the art I create, for the songs I write and perform, as well as the album I will release.

I begin each day with gratitude for the gift of life — and it is a gift of the most precious and profound sort — that I will not forsake or foreclose with the foolishness of my bygone youth.

I would not be here to write this note, but for the will to survive; I would not know what to write — and whom to thank — were it not for my family and friends; because when you take too much for granted, and when you poison your mind with pessimism and harden your heart with self-hatred, you put yourself on a path of personal destruction and professional annihilation.

A different journey — a better road — represents my recovery.

— Ash