I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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.
