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.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.
I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.
All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.
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!
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.
Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?
My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.
Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.
There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.
There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.
