There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
It's hard to find vehicles for your music.
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
I never learned to read music.
I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
