I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.
That's the cool thing that music can do: make you feel this or that way. That's all I've ever wanted to achieve - I'm a music guy, you know? That's my occupation.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.
I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.
For me, I feel like the most important part of music is the storytelling behind it, and that's my favorite; that's what makes my favorite artists my favorite artists, having the story that I relate to the most and that helps me the most.
I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.
It's always about the music, never about anything else.
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
I have a passion for the music - not because of I wanna be in the lights or the money, but it's because it's my life. It's my heart.
I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.
Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.
The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.
Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.
The thing we get to do is bring music to people. I think that's the most important thing we can do. That's the way we show joy. That's the way we show love. That's way we show our gifts to so many.
