Music Reference Quotes

My song 'Nevermind' was named after Nirvana's album, so when I had to choose a cover for my Spotify Singles session, choosing 'Like A Stone' by Audioslave was the natural next choice, as I grew up constantly listening to the song.

If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?

How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them.

'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

I had Fleetwood Mac on, and Saido Berahino asked me if it was from a movie soundtrack.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.'

I used to walk around trying to do the Britney Spears growl: 'Oh, baby, baby.'

I had written 'Cafe de Flore' with 'Stairway to Heaven' in mind.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.

The alarm on my wife's phone is 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so that's a great way to wake up.

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

I used to listen to a lot of music in my studio - all the time. But as far as the music that interplays with my work, what I've done and still do is keep a lyric book and song title. The material typically comes from Eartha Kitt, Betty Davis, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston.