I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.
I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
When my films didn't work, I wondered what was wrong in my acting graph, and then I realised the dedication I had for music, I didn't have the same for acting.
I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.
One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
