I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'
My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.
I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
I don't feel like I'm putting records out because I have to. It's just my art and I love it.
An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.
I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
We were worried at first that our music and message wouldn't get across because we were singing in Japanese. But as we continued doing world tours, we realized and felt that music surpasses such things as language barriers, countries and race.
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.
The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we do, even though it seems pointless to us to explain it. The rest of the time we just do what we do and don't worry about it.
