Quotes About Music

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

I was a Southern California boy raised on rap music and cussed like a sailor.

I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.

It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

I think we will find more and more ways in which technology invades our artistic spaces, so music is something you will need more than ever because it is there in time and in space and for that moment only.

I'm always the person that is DJing spaces and moments. I'm crazy about music.