My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.
I like music to soothe me.
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.