Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.
Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.
To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
