I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.
James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He's real different than what you thinks. He's super turned up.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.
Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of music the way I am, and how my personality is.
See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.
Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.
There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.
I'm interested in music as an extension of character.
I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.
With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.
I treat every song like a different character. It is good that people recognise my voice instantly, but as an artiste, I always try and bring some variety with each of them.
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.
If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.
I love 'hearing a person's face' in their music. I've been told by fans that they can tell when I'm smiling or feeling mischievous in my voice - that's a huge compliment.
Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.
