Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex...

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with...

People don't really compare me to anybody. They just say I'm a mumble rapper. I'm fine with that. I don't really care.

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...

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in...

Die a Happy Man was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was, This is a career record. I was like, Why do you think that? I think the stars aligned.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a...

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

I was always freestyling in the projects.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't even think of. I'm very influenced by Marilyn Manson. His style is ridiculous. Like, honestly, if you...

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.

Skip Marley just a rasta youth who sings from the heart.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing...

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.