Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.
Everybody likes good music, so when you're just playing good music and encouraging everybody to have fun, they'll have fun.
Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.
There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.
Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about.
I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.
My music puts people in a dreamy mood. It's edgy. It's nuanced. I get annoyed when people say it's R&B because it's not that simple. I call it futuristic soul.
Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.
I want to make music to lift the people.
Music brings unity.
I love creating music that makes people dance, smile and have a good time.
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
I want my music to be beautiful.
My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.
From the beginning with 'So Far Gone,' Drake's work has been to find a way to deftly balance his singing and his rapping.
Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day - denim, jeans, long hair, early 20s.
I love R&B and hard-hitting, slappy, intense music with deep chords and moody chords. But I also have a thing for bubbly lullaby music. Kind of like ice-cream truck rap.
Jeff Buckley songs are kind of random but so catchy.
If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.
When I sit down and play the guitar, I'm 20 years old again.
Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.
