I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.
My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.
I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
