Quotes About Music

A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.

I'm very proud of 'Arise.'

I heard Otis Redding singing 'These Arms of Mine' and I knew that was the band I needed.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

I don't have a family that grew up singing and playing all the time. I didn't really have anything to judge my abilities against until I got out into the professional world and met other professional musicians. All I had was my own way of arriving at a song. That was it.

It would be arrogant to come to music only thinking about success.

Music was the first art form I ever had.

I found that music was my favorite art form.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.

I'm very lucky that I can walk on the stage before anyone in the world. And that's the thing: you've got to be pretty confident to go on after me. You've got to have the artillery, as I call it. And the artillery is your songs.

I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince was about his artistry and music.

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

I would say my favorite is probably the 'Colder' video. Just because that sort of brings the album artwork to life. It's not my favorite song on the album, but visually, I think it just came out exactly how I had it in my head.

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.