Quotes About Music

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

I'm literally obsessed with Christmas, and it's been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

Music was brought up in the church.

House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.

My wife Shirlie was in Wham! when we met, so we were moving in the same circles.

I play the didgeridoo using circular breathing.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

I think that's a big part of what I love about the boys in the band, too, and what I find attractive in men in general is, really, the ability to not take everything so seriously because it is rock n' roll after all; it's a freakin' circus. We're not accountants here.

Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.

Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.

Atlanta is just different. It's the music city.

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.