Quotes About Music

I would really love to work with Max Martin.

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

I can't make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he's something that I aspire to be.

If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?

I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

Another Lonely Song' is one of the most meaningful songs I've ever done.

To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.