I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.
Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.
I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down...
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.
