My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don't sit well with others.
For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
If you sing the way I do, I get about one-fifth of the oxygen that the other guys in the band get. It doesn't make anything easier.
The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.
Are there people's music that I don't like? Sure, there are.
