I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
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.
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural cue; simply shut off the music when you want people to leave.
Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.
Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.
They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.
You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.
