I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.
I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.
I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.
I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.
Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.
I'm constantly working on music.
It was crazy... working with Ne-Yo. Everything was such a blur, and I was just a fangirl the whole time.
I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.
I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.
Most films don't have a budget for a background score, but it is the toughest job to do. We work like donkeys. And usually we get only around a month to do a score.
People would call me up because they liked my voice, and they wanted some kind of vocal harmony. Sometimes I was asked to come in and sing all the harmony parts, and sometimes I would sing with other people.
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
