Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.
I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.
The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends, the precariousness of romantic love, the difference between the love you give to the living and the love you give to ...
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, ...
I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.
I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because...
