When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.
I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you'...
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. B...
My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.
You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.
For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.
Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fanta...
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
I got country music in me.
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.
