My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.
I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.
Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
