Music my rampart, and my only one.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.
Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.