Music Quotes

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

I love country music.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

I love slow music.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.