A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

I would love to work with Megan Thee Stallion, City Girls, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj.

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His...

In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's...

Many ask me why I work with debutants, but I always tell them that there's space for every one in the industry, and if my music helps him, then I'm glad to be of some help. I will never say no to...

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that...

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I think it's really important that you are the face of our song. Because if you look at it, independent space is all about shaping our brand, and the kind of song we do. So you do things that are...

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I...

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a lot of money on a sixth member.

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

From their breakout 2002 single, 'Losing My Edge,' LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the...

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its...

I don't want to have a label. I just want to do everything. My music, my voice, my talent, my vision, it transcends all of those boxes. That's why I try my best to try any language, I try to think in...

Everything that I sing about, especially songs like 'Far From Home' and 'The Bleeding,' I really put 110 percent of myself into it, so it's difficult.

I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,'...

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.