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My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.

I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.

In a lot of ways, the Nocturnals are a safety net and a beautiful, beautiful blanket. All the life and music we've woven makes it so much more than a name on a marquee. But I realized the Nocturnals aren't me but a part of me... so it's natural to want to grow.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can shout and dance. The best of the Eighties was club church.

When you write and make music, there's a tendency to save stuff... to be cagey, to be savvy.

When someone gives you a piece of music, they are really giving you a piece of themselves.

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

I've always worked with different mediums whether it's melting gold to make teeth, working with wood and paint or bending sound in a music studio.

Music is far more than numbers to me - it's where I find peace.

Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

The machinery of the music industry is that you put something into it and it could be chewed up.

Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! It's not good for your health.

Rob Playford is a phenomenal engineer, but he doesn't have his own ideas, he doesn't make his own music. But what he does have is a fantastic width and berth to throw loads of creative ideas at him.

The music I make is for the inner city.

Simon Cowell is the George Bush of the music industry.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

The more you play music, the better you'll get.