Michael Arden Quotes

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.

My earliest memories have to do with music.

I know I get a real kick, an emotional charge, out of playing a song I haven't played for 10 years. It just takes you back to that point in your life.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

There's this song called 'Brad Chester,' which is like the depths of my family. It comes from a very personal place.

When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

For a little kid like me, growing up in Carle Place, you put on John Lee Hooker late at night, and it's a different reality. I try to feel that music from the inside out because I was really attracted to it.

OMG, I have my 'Mamma Mia!' playbill framed in my bedroom. It was magical! I totally cried... a lot! I remember collecting playbills my entire life, and then to be in one... I have no words.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.

Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

My dad always had me sing alongside him while he played guitar. He taught me how to harmonize to an old song of his, 'Missing You.'