When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.
In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.
Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
