Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to something deeper. These quotes explore rhythm, melody, performance, and the mysterious way that organized sound can make you cry, dance, or remember something you thought you had forgotten.
“I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.”
“Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.”
“I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.”
“When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.”
“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.”
“What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.”
“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.”
“So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.”
“Music is forever music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
“If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.”
“It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.”
“When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.”
“I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.”
“A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.”
“I'm very inspired by past music.”
“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”