Zitat des Tages über Bob Marley:
I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.
All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.
We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.
Some people have style without even knowing it!
I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.
Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.
If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.
As a person who wants to see and believe in the story, I don't think women at age 50 are able to sing young girls.
We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
Aaliyah has been an artist I've grown up with, like an older sister.
I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.
I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
No, fame has not changed Wizkid.
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.