I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality.
Our music is consumer. It's made to be played with, it's made to have fun.
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.
Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.
We want people to know that Live Nation can serve all their live-music needs. If we're going to be the ones who have a relationship with the consumer, then we have a responsibility to be the ones accountable if things go bad.
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
