That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.
I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.
I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.
