The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
