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.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.
Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
