Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very important things to me – and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others...
Last Saturday night I was in a club on the South Side of Chicago listening to live rock music and talking to a guitar playing veteran of the music scene in the city. He looked and talked like the musicians that I recall from my childhood; he was a th...
Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.
Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.
Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at house, and I'm in the studio or performing every night. I like Beats by Dre for headphones, and Bang & Olufsen soundsystems.
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.
Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.
I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.
