I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.
