I appreciate Drake's music, I appreciate Future's music, I appreciate Lil Durk's music. I appreciate Uzi, Meek Mill, I appreciate Migos.
I don't really listen to contemporary R&B with an ear for hearing my influence. Music is a spirit unto itself, and all of us musicians influence each other all along the chain.
I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
I'd say I am a nice cross of R&B and Pop.
I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.
I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
All my albums always go with the times.
I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.
I like Kanye and Kendrick Lamar.
One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
I love Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Usher, Mariah Carey... all that stuff.
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.
I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.
I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.
Even though The Cure helped pioneer the jangly, dance-oriented guitar and keyboard style it continues to embrace, there are other bands that now employ the post-punk style with greater flair. This leaves The Cure's live presentation seeming a bit anonymous.
