Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.
I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
Rap is the only super-current music. If you're into reggae or dancehall, and you don't know Bob Marley, then you don't really know what you're listening to. But if you're listening to rap, and you're 15, you're like, 'Grandmaster Flash? Who's that? Public Enemy? Yeah, my dad told me about them once.' And that's just how it is.
I would say think about the thing that makes you happiest, and do that. If it's drawing or dancing or listening to music or bowling, whatever it is that makes you happy, I would focus on that, and you'll definitely gain some confidence.
Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.
I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
My siblings weren't playing music; I was the only one who wanted to buy a guitar and was listening on headphones the whole time.
