To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
