I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people who listen to English songs.
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.
I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That's how far his music travelled - to a remote village on the other side of the world.
Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.
I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.
You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
