Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.
I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.
When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.
Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.
More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
