I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.
For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
Music is an outburst of the soul.
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
I love to play music.