Quotes About Music

I like to make fun records. Contrary to popular belief.

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

I can contribute to the field of music, I would not have been able to contribute to the field of engineering.

I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my contribution or my appreciation and respect for this life that we're living, and to try to make it better. I can't feel that I'm making it better playing commercial music, and I never could, and I never will.

Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.

I guess I want to be a voice for the kid. I mean, it sounds quite contrived, but I want to make music that I would have wanted to hear when I was 14.

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.

I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.

I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.

Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band.

How can I be happy when my songs are converted into a circus?

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

I just get all jacked up when we start cooking.

I think Kendrick Lamar is great. It would be cool to do something with him.

Me and Uzi aren't friends. We used to be cool. It's not beef; it's just competition. That's all it is. We're not friends.

In general, people that we meet in person are pretty cool people - always very respectful, just happy to be there, happy to enjoy the music.

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through writing songs, that's a pretty cool thing to do.