'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.
I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.
Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
