Music has the ability to comfort people.
Matthew Morrison
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk... →
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.