I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.
Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
