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"I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting."
"The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end. I think it's really easy to forget that - I'd sooner play something musical than flash, and as I can't play anything flash, I try to be musical. Drums can set a mood, create an impression, as much as anything else."
"Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter."
"I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context."
"I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious."
"I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth."
"Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical."
"You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital."
"Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only."
"I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie."
"I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose."
"The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical."
"I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound."
"The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell."
"I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all."
"They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing."
"I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place."
"Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet."
"I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project."
"I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families."
