The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.