Quotes About Music

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.

For me, I put Mac Dre right up there with Biggie and 'Pac as legends who have since passed on.

After 'Nine Million Bicycles', I was sent bikes from all over the world. I got about 10.

I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.

To make the Billboard Hot 100 is my dream.

I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

I know all the words to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire.'

We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.

I would be happy to be a footnote in my dad's bio. I don't care about trying to be famous or prove that I didn't need him. Even if they say I'm riding his coattails, I'm confident enough in my own music that I don't worry about that.

I view my records as a personal biography.

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.'

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit together at some point, and I said 'I want to play guitar.'

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.