Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.
I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.
We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.
We want to collaborate with Bring Me The Horizon.
In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.
I've always wanted to collaborate with Shawn Mendes, he's an amazing artist, but the thing with Shawn is that I won't collaborate... me just sending some beats. It has to be in the studio where we'd both be there recording together.
I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.
