Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
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.
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.
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.
