Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)
I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
