Quotes About Music

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

In Europe, I do see a lot of women who were fans years ago bring their daughters and sons to shows and that's how my music gets passed down, and I love that.

I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.

Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it's fun. I'll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.