Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
I met Toni, my wife, when we were cast opposite each other in a musical.
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy.
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
