“I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.”
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“I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.”
“I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.”
“I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.”
“I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.”
“You know I used to listen to music a lot more.”
“I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.”
“I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.”
“I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.”
“I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.”
“I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.”
“Pop music has progressed.”
“I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.”
“I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”
“I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.”
“And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.”
“Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.”
“I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.”
“Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.”
“One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.”
“I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.”
“I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.”
“The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.”
“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.”