For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit...
Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.
I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don't want people to think it's just a stepping stone in my career. A lot of actors go that route as a way of building their careers. I don't want it to be seen a...
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.
When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.
I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
