When I was around 11, my dad took me to see Santana live, and then I got 'Sacred Fire,' and everything changed for me.
I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.
I've seen Coldplay live a couple of times, and you feel like you just got rained over with glorious, glowing love. That's a good feeling to leave people with.
I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis.
The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.
We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very venerable place to perform. I'd never heard of anyone going into the Hall and kind of standing on the seats and playing throughout the aisles and having the audience stand on the seats. So when we did that in 2013, even for me it was a shock.
I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they're lovely, I've seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.
My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.
I've liked Kiss from when I was three years old. I've seen them, the real deal, with all the original members when they came back in '96 and all that, and that's fine.
Seeing Rush the first time was huge for me. That was my favorite band and I couldn't believe they were actually in the same building as me. I was totally freaking out when the show started and when they started to play it was almost like cartoon characters coming to life. I couldn't get my head around the fact that it was really them.
Since I am an avid singer and a lot of my fans want to hear me sing, I thought it will be really nice to sing my songs online so that more people could watch me, and I thought digital is the best way to connect with everyone.
I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
You can't stop rock-n-roll!
I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.
I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did 'Purple Rain' in the rain. He was out there with the guitar goin'. It was absolutely awesome.
I don't have a hip-hop goal but I want to headline Bonnaroo one day.
When I saw Kiss, and it was monsters with guitars, I thought this was the greatest thing that ever happened.
As a songwriter, I've got a lot of facets, so to speak. When you come to a live show, you get a better sense of that, because you'll see me performing a piano ballad and some acoustic songs and some not acoustic songs, all in the same set.
I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.
The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.
I would love to see the Replacements get back together at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, because I never got to see them live and I love Charleston.
