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I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

I know music is subjective.

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and all sorts of music if it's good but Indian music is just... an untouchable you can't say what it is, because it just is.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

I really want to try to protect as much as I can, to safeguard peoples' first experience with a record. Because I want you to get the whole thing as one integrated piece, because it's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I think all music is a gift from God.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

I think the music is relevant and if people are into the music, they're going to be into it regardless of when it comes from.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.