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When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.

I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.

We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was definitely singing from a lot younger than that.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Those 20 silents we made grossed a few million each and the early sound pictures did very well.

It's music that is made to be listened to, not just heard. And it's got to be natural. Someone like Nick Drake is a classic example. You almost fall in love with his sound because you feel he's not doing it for you. He's not even doing it for himself. It's something that just happens and even he doesn't know how to control it.

It's interesting, now we have these huge TVs with wonderful sound and so on at home, we're awash with wonderful dramas from so many different sources that you can sit and enjoy with family or friends, and explore characters over two years via really sharp writing.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.