If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'He...
I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produ...
I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who di...
I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than ...
1900: Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You're infinite... And on those keys, the music that you can make... is infinite. I like that. That I can live by...
My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people...
I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday nigh...
Music is not my life. My life is music.
Pop music I have always loved best.
Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.
You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.
I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
I love the music business very much.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
Put out great music, and that's that.
Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Good rock music always tends to be around.
'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.
