The Book of Truths
Whenever he performs, Cardiff passes around a notebook he calls the Book of Truths. He invites audience members to write what’s in their heart in these books, and it becomes one more way to connect with audience members that he doesn’t always get a chance to talk to.
“I feel like I’ve had this one-way conversation for the past 15 years that I’ve been performing with so many audience members,” he says. “Part of it is I just felt egotistical that I’d been having this longwinded one-way conversation for so long and to sort of invite people to share themselves a little bit, because that’s what I feel you do when you perform.”
Cardiff believes the Book of Truths reveals not only what matters to people, but also how much people have in common.
“I feel like everybody’s a little bit broken, and everybody has the same capacity and range of terribleness and beautifulness and light,” he says.
A number of Cardiff’s songs have been inspired by notes he read in the Book of Truths, and in 2011, he printed his first edition of the Book of Truths, which he sells through his website and at shows.
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