I play the drums, I love to sing. I'll make a beat anywhere - on the wall, on the floor - and I can have fun doing just about anything.
My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.
I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.
I will never stop making music.
I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.
Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.
When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.
When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.
I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.
I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
I'm so grateful to be able to do music.
As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.
When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.
We think accolades are nice, awards are great, but we make music for the people.
When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.
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.
That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.
I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.
