I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.
In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.
I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
