K. Flay Quotes

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

That's something I want to do: cover all sorts of genres to find the one I love most.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

Then I met people at school who were into Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. I like heaps of different music, but that was a real pivotal time in terms of finding my way.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

The way I learnt to play was to go out there and enjoy myself. I never thought I'd play professionally.

As a young kid I never saw myself as a drummer.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.