I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.
I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements. I have a studio at my home, so whenever he needs my help I make sure I stand by him. I often sing for the tunes that he composes.
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.
I play the drums, I love to sing. I'll make a beat anywhere - on the wall, on the floor - and I can have fun doing just about anything.
I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.
I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.
I've been making music since age five.
My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
I don't feel like we have that Paul McCartney gene, and I think the cool thing about us is that we know it.
I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
If you haven't got help, all you can do is make good music.
We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.
