I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.
People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
