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John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

The way we like to make music is we'll announce a project when there are zero songs, and then we take that pressure and try to make an album really fast.

Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.

We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.

I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.

It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.

I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.