Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.