I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.
I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.
I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.
It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
