People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
