It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
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It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a little darker than they were used to, or really introspective in a way that may have been uncomfortable. I thought they'd retaliate with some kind of judgment or concern about whether I was feeling all right, but they were proud of it.
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters.
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
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