In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
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!
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
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.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
