I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we dont even know, and make music and whatever.
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.