I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Doughboy: Man your pops is like, mothafuckin, Malcolm... Farrakhan.
I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.
Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said. "Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it.
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
The rooftop of the mouth is where the chest must sing love songs.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
We are all touched by music. Music connects us.
Care: not carnage Love: not loathing Peace: not pieces
Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
