TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
