The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
