Ashnikko Quotes

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

We became the songs we wrote.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.