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James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh, you know? We could approach it with such fresh ears, which wouldn't be possible if we had been listening to it when we were younger.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he's put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.