Quotes About Music

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.

My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'

The first time that I met B.I.G. was in 1994, summer of '94 - I believe it was August. I think it was right after 'Ready to Die' came out.

I never thought I would be able to play in Seoul, the city where my mother was raised and I was born, and I was able to perform for my aunt.

Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

We're actually more popular in the U.K.; they really get us, and in Australia. In the non-English speaking countries, they don't really get it.

I didn't even think my music was good enough to get on the radio in Australia.

I would love to go to England, Europe and especially Australia. I have a real fantasy about playing in Australia; I would love to get over there.

Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.

TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.

I'll tell anyone anything about my life, and that is my biggest goal is to always be authentic - in my music, in my artwork, in everything I do. It has to be who I really am.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.

The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.