I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
I used to like the Jonas Brothers, but only because I thought that they were good-looking, not because I actually liked their music.
I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
