Quotes About Music

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.