I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.
If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.
In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son orally. It is not written. You learn from your father and add something, because you are living now and telling a story to others. This results in many different interpretations of the same song.
Now anybody can make music at home, and you can hear music on any computer without having to buy it. Everything is apparently better with all the machines we have now, but at the same time, the quality of life is not improving.
Radio Disney is the greatest. As a place where young people can come together, have a place to hear music that doesn't think about genre or whatever, it's an amazing place to have a home!
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff.
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
