I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What is music for? It's to make you feel good.
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
It's the music that brings us together.
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.