I listen to a lot of medieval music.
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
I'm not trained in music.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
Swing is my favorite kind of music.
I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
