I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.
Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.
