My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you've never heard. She's so heavy into the underground music scene. When she's speaking on music, she means it.
I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.
I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
The music scene is more competitive in the States.
I don't think many people get second chances when it comes to the music scene.
I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.
When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.
I've known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.
'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.
I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it's that consistent and that good. It's HD.
