Quotes About Music

I'm real settled with what I've done. The albums are really fun to make but I don't really like to be out on the road now.

When Take That came around my band had just come to an end and I was settling into acting life.

I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are. It's all pretty similar reasons why they're big.

I am very inspired by the Seventies.

My daughter does sewing, needlepoint and very good drawings. My son plays the piano.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

Let's face it - the electric guitar is way sexier than the acoustic.

The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

You know who I think is very sexy? Nora Jones.

I think Bjork is sexy.

I don't listen to Drake. That's not a shade to Drake. I don't know who Drake is for, but it's not for me.

I'm not proud of the lyrics to 'Shake It Up.'

It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.