I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
I got married and had a baby, so I was doing the mummy thing. I got hyperemesis and was only supposed to go away for maternity leave, but then it ended up being three or four years, and by that time, it was hard to get back into the music world, so when Drake called, it was the perfect opportunity.
I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.
Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.
That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.
I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.
Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
