In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
