Personal Music Quotes

I feel like pop and R&B are just my core.

My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

Everyone's computer, mobile phone or music-listening device should have a folder in my name with 100 songs.

I want to release music that I like and feel comfortable with.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

Obviously, with me being a DJ, I have a love for music. One day I was like, 'OK. I'm tired of playing everybody else's music. I rather play my music.' So, that's kind of how the whole me doing music thing started.

There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.

The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

I tried for a long time to make DJ-able dance tracks that were more specific to the stuff that I was playing. Ultimately, I found I wasn't really capable of doing that. The only type of music I was able to make that really made me feel something would just come straight from my heart or straight from whatever emotions I was feeling at that time.

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

I really am not interested in making political music per se. I'm making personal records, but at the same time, I'm very much aware of my surroundings. And those surroundings, what's going on in the larger picture, affects my everyday life and affects the way that I think.

Music has always been around with me.

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.

A song can be a song where somebody thinks you're crazy. A song that gets released has got to be something that everyone can relate to. Most of the songs that I keep are un-relateable for most people - some of the music I make only for myself and the homies.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.