Quotes About Music

Oh yeah, I love Peter Gabriel's stuff. I mean, I even have the Genesis records. He's incredible.

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a guitar I could sit here and probably get closer than anybody else.

My first gig was at Carle Place High School, which is in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. I was 14, and I was invited to play with this band, and I was so excited, but I was really petrified.

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

I listen to music, meet my friends, spend lot of time with my pets and party at the gym!

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

Growing up, my parents loved Bon Jovi and Boston and Rush and all that, but it wasn't really connecting with me. I was still in my boy-band phase - Backstreet Boys for life!

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

There was a phase when I and people around me listened to Prince a lot. A lot. We took Prince fandom to the extreme.

I really like a lot of the old 2-tone ska. I definitely went through a phase where I was into The Specials and The Busters. But a lot of the ska revival - I never really have had an interest in that.

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.