Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'
