I expect to make a career out of country music.
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.
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music an...
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.
You can't force music; It just has to come to you.
I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.
I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.
Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.
Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.
When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.
