David Longstreth Quotes

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.