I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.
When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.
The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.
Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.
Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.
I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.
I think I made records, since early on, that people wanted to listen to.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.
I think with certain artists you want to hear their album... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.
People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.
In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.
I don't really listen to Jacques Villeneuve anymore.
Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.
I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.
