Musician Quotes

I love to write. It's my first love.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

People have to respect intellectual property.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.