I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
I love playing live, and doing big TV shows are exciting.
I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.
Performing with Thomas Rhett our song 'Craving You,' I'm so excited for the fans to see it and sort of see our worlds come together because I feel like he's sort of a genre pusher and boundary pusher, and I feel the same way about my music.
I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent production and groundbreaking ideas that lift the music to a greater realm.
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.
I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.
I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming.
What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.
I need to be able to rock out.
It's an incredible experience to interact with fans in first person, get immediate responses to your music and see the madness that your music creates.
Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'
I'm massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it's always great when he decides to release music.
I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
There's no real high like finishing a new song, playing it a thousand times in your car, and freaking out with your co-writers.
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
With a live audience, if you sing with the right feeling, the response you get is a high, an excitement. There's nothing in the studio that can give you anything quite like that.
With 'Torches,' I wanted to make a great pop record; I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no long pieces of music without vocals. I kind of wanted to write the perfect pop album.
