I love flamenco. It’s very difficult music to sing. But I think of any genre as a snow globe – you don’t admire it for its stillness. You have to shake it up and see how it explodes.
The equipment doesn’t matter, it’s the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.
People are getting more used to another language; that’s how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.
Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
If something happened where I couldn’t write music anymore, it would kill me. It’s not just a job. It’s not just a hobby. It’s why I get up in the morning.
I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
I’m one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I’m not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it’s constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes.
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive.
You don’t have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.
One thing that I had to remember in my personal journey in the music industry and coming up in the music industry was how many times I was told no. I was signed, I was dropped, I was signed, and I was put on a shelf.
Music has the power to divert the violent minds.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they’re like this short little stab.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
That’s where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.
I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There’s no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
