My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
Authentic kindness has a power greater than rock, paper and scissors combined.
Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
