I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listeni...
One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.
I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.
I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.
Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.
I moved my studio to Palm Springs 'cause I don't like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job... I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house... I don't want to be in a studio where people can hear the music 'cause I don't ...
I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.
I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
