I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.
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.
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
