There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hopefully it doesn't come as too much of a shock that artists we love watching or listening to for an hour or two aren't always people with whom we otherwise would want to spend 20 minutes.
People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.