My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.
And I like music, too, I like playing music.
God-dang-it, country music is my heart.
I listen to Christian music.
I prefer black music in general.
I got country music in me.
People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.
I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.
But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
