I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.
I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.
I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'
