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I'm just really inspired by women and, for me, it's really important to work with someone who can relate to the female experience, especially in music.

'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.

I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

I'm not into releasing throwaway music for the sake of it.

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.

For me, writing and creating music can be quite a solitary thing.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

See, I'm not a very open person, face-to-face. I'm no good at sharing my feelings with others, good or bad. I kind of close up. Music is the only time I can open up and actually say things.

I'm just used to having so much control in music and in acting you have to give that up a bit. Sure, our voices are heard on set, but at the end of the day you can lose an argument. Whereas in music, if I feel the second verse needs to be changed I can change it. I find it really hard as an artist to give up some of that control.

We grew up and I feel like we're achieving a level of success through music that's allowing us to see the world. I want that for people where I come from. I want them to achieve that same thing through their passions. It's important that when we reach these places, that we still are who we are, and we never forget where we come from.

Music changes every year, but some people are great at riding waves and then they're doing something different next year.