Quotes About Music

The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.

I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that was the last guitar lesson that I ever took, so I taught myself what I wanted to know.

I'm a music fan first and foremost. I can find the beauty in Jellyfish and U2 just as much as Opeth and Lamb of God, just as much as I can with Rush and Yes.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.

I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.

My brother was the first in Lancaster to have a Fender Stratocaster.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

People, despite having the common interest in our band, might not be friends before meeting at a show. It's great bringing families together.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn on the radio and try to figure out how to play popular songs.

That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self.

I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.

I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the time when I was a kid. I went to label meetings when I was pretty young, and obviously my goal was, like, 'No, we're gonna hold off.'

The problem in this country is people gravitate toward one genre, and that's what they embrace. I don't understand that. If you hit me with Bell Biv Devoe meets country, well, I like the sound of that concept.

We may not be proud of every song we've ever done - or been forced to do - but I believe we've done more than meets the eye.

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

Huge fan of Lady Gaga - huge, mega, superfan.

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega huge, like System of a Down or Incubus.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.