I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all... →
Rufus Wainwright
I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in... →
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I... →
There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years... →
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with... →
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your... →
Tom Waits
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis... →
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children... →