A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.
I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
