I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.
Anita Miller: This song explains why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess.
[During the song "Shout" at the toga party] Bluto: Gator! [He, D-Day, and others begin shaking on the floor]
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!
If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.
I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.
My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
Life is like a song; there's a chorus you always come back to with a thrilling solo somewhere in the middle.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
