Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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.
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
