In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.
I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.
When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.
I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.
