I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
