There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.
I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
I'm always eager to make new music.
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.
When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet.
I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever type of 'ates' they can do. I'm gonna let my music grow on them.
I just wanted to express myself and put out music of how I'm feeling - give back to my fans and gain new ones in the process.
I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
2018 was an amazing year for me, and music has changed so much: the way you can release it and the ways you can create art around it, the videos, the ways fans can interact, tour in new places.
The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.
I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.
During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.
The thing about Springsteen, his music, although he's writing about, you know, New Jersey and Asbury Park, all of them places, it's blue-collar towns that, like - it's similar to Newcastle, where I'm from.
