The world's a better place since I chose music.
Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.
With singing, you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing.
I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
Music is my home.
I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.
Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
I love singing for films because there is a story to the song; it takes you down a new road.
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
My life conforms to music, not the other way around.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.
I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
Music is like film to me.
Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story - my favorite records have a narrative feel.
I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
I can't really choose how I'm going to connect to music. I find it just has to hit a wave, and just wash over me and take me completely to some other space.
I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.
I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.
