Quotes About Music

I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.

Glowsticks look great. They look better than holding your mobile phone in the air.

I can play CDs and I can use an ordinary mobile.

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.

You can listen to a lot of cowboy records that sound goofy and almost cartoon-y. Its a fine line to walk, having traditional cowboy songs rooted in some kind of reality, while at the same time maintaining that mythos without it becoming a mockery of it.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has.

Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.'

The pop market is a very fickle market, and that's why for me to go into the teeny-pop, 'TRL' mode, it's not really for me.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

Sometimes I want to listen to sad music, sometimes something fun and sometimes you're in romantic mode.

The first song I did was when I was 15 it was called 'Party Mode.'

Faith Hill is a big role model.

I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.

I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.

From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.