I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
It's a particular skill, I think , doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'
Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.
As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
