To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.
Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music.
I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
