I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
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.
I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.
It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.
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.
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
