Music Quotes
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The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.
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I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
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I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
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Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
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Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.
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I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.
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Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
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I don't intend to stop making music.
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Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.
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I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
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Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.
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Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
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The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity.
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.
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My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.
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I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.
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I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.
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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.
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When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
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The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
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The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
