Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.
You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.
I think my music has connected with the audience because I always have a clear vision about my songs.
Metal fans have a connection. There is something there; just like the wrestling world, they are die hard about wrestling, and it's that passion that makes you enjoy what you do. That is why I go to metal shows; you watch these dudes on stage just shredding and letting loose. You can't help but love it.
It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.
I've always felt connected to music. There was always music playing at home, and I'd just dance and sing.
My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.
Fashion is definitely important. It's like peanut butter and jelly with hiphop music, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a part of you, a part of yourself as a person.
You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals.
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
I would like to reach out to the global audience; Music is beyond all the culture and language barriers.
Yes, I want to work with Rick Rubin. Yes, I want to work with Trent Reznor. Yes, I want to work with Madlib. Yes, I want to get with all these wonderful people. Collie Buddz, Marsha Ambrosius. I just want to go, man. I'm gonna keep on making music.
Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
