I have a crazy work ethic. I'll do 20 songs a day. I love music that much.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.

Being a superstar... can make life very difficult, difficult to grow. So I like to visit with my friends, listen to some fine music, drink some good wine, perhaps take a ride in the country in a fine car, or... just walk along the beach.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Any good music must be an innovation.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

All music is beautiful.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.