You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!
I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
