When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.
This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
My biggest turn-on is a fine pair of athletic legs. A girl with a fine pair of athletic legs who is not afraid to show them off. Turn-offs? A girl who doesn't like country music is a huge turn-off, and girls who don't take care of themselves.
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.
A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.
We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.
So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.
Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
I hate music, especially when it's played.
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.
I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'
