I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.
Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.
We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the moo...
When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.
Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
