I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.
I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.
Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
It's a particular skill, I think , doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
