I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.
My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
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.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
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.
Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.
There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
