I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'
I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.
I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what you're supposed to feel.
Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!
I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.
For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.
