Music Quotes

I wrote from life, how things were in my life. I never could understand why others didn’t write down what they knew.

I just love music again. I love it. It makes me whole. It makes me feel like I’m doing something right. Makes me feel like I’m doing it for a purpose again. It’s not my job anymore, it’s actually back to my passion.

I’m doing a cover album. I’m doing a cover album sans Auto-Tune, but it’s not the type of cover album people are thinking I’m going to do. I’m doing all classic rock and country songs. I’m doing ‘That’s Life’ by Frank Sinatra, doing ‘War Pigs,’ ‘Don’t Stop Believing,’ and ‘Tennessee Whiskey.’ I’m doing stuff like […]

It’s one of those kinds of songs that transcends generations. I didn’t use any trendy words…I think it made it timeless. (About “Gangsta’s Paradise”)

Where there’s music there can’t be mischief.

After ‘Manic,’ I had a handful of radio hits and I think people probably would have expected me to – and I would have expected myself actually – to go in that direction and continue wanting to make music that is performing commercially in that same way. If I want to sustain myself and give […]

I’ve always been driven to reinvent myself and reinvent my genre.

I love “Drops of Jupiter.” I feel like it’s everyone’s comfort song.

There are people that say they’re fans that only own ‘Bat Out of Hell,’ and it drives me crazy. Because they come to shows, and expect me to sound like I did when I was 26. And besides that, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ had to be sped up to get on vinyl. So, I’ve never […]

I don’t sound like my age at all. I can sing “Bat Out of Hell,” no problem — all the same key, all the high notes.