I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.
I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
