With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'
I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.
I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.
With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.
I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
I don't listen to a ton of rock music.
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
I have quite catholic taste in music.
The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.
Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.
There's something about real music, dawg. It comes to you; you don't have to go to it.
I got possessed by music as an infant.
It's hard to find vehicles for your music.
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
When I'm feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, sometimes I'll read a book. But most of the time, I will either listen to music or play music. I'm basically always playing music, even if I'm not stressed!
