We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.
I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.
I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
