I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension a...
In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.
People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and unique to get people's attention, that's what is needed. There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it g...
There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music; I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music co...
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.
When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
I make music for the hips, not the head.
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
