I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.
It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
I know music is subjective.
I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
I wanna go play my music in a club.
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds.
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, ...
That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.
So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.
So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
