Music Interviews
Alan Menken: “Always be in love with the process”
Albert Hammond Jr.: “I loved pushing that boundary”
Alexander Ebert: “I was constantly in trouble”
Alicia Keys: “It can’t be held back anymore”
Andrea Bocelli: “Life has been good to me”
Arlo Parks: “It feels like what I’m meant to do”
Arturo Sandoval: “Focus on today”
Benjamin Bernheim: “This is an art form that is alive”
Bill Conti: “I’m writing it for emotional reaction”
Björk: “There is a dramatic change in the air”
Black Francis: “It doesn’t feel like anger”
Bryan Adams: “It’s like mining for diamonds”
Carla Bruni: “The real matter is the people you love”
Chilly Gonzales: “I try to pull the curtain back”
Clive Davis: “You’ve got to earn it”
Cosey Fanni Tutti: “It’s like a metamorphosis”
Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson: “Money is freedom”
Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”
David Byrne: “We did okay”
David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”
Debbie Harry: “The music speaks for itself”
Denzel Curry: “I have no regrets”
Elvis Costello: “I didn’t have some big blueprint”
Fana Hues: “It feels like completion”
Flume: “I’ve started to put life as a priority”
Flying Lotus: “Music wasn’t a reality for me”
Genesis Owusu: “I’ve always known who I am”
Giorgio Moroder: “I was always interested in the hits”
Grimes: “I want to be the best”
Gunner Stahl: “You can tell if it’s real or not”
Hans Zimmer: “You are forever in that dream world”
Hildur Guðnadóttir: “That’s when things come alive”
James Mercer: “Everyone was too cool to care”
Jan Lisiecki: “The music speaks for itself”
Jane Birkin: “There was a sense of being totally free”
Jarvis Cocker: “It’s like seeing into the future”
Jeff Mills: “You’re only limited by your imagination”
Jóhann Jóhannsson: “Does it speak simply and directly?”
Johnny Marr: “Who cares about authentic?”
Johnny Rotten: “I love chemical imbalances”
Jon Batiste: “I’m a link in a chain”
Justin Timberlake: “Be in the moment”
Kiri Te Kanawa: “It’s coming from your heart”
Lars Ulrich: “So far, so good”
Lee “Scratch” Perry: “I am that I am”
Leslie Odom Jr.: “We have to make room for all of it”
Lianne La Havas: “I don’t do it for anybody else”
Lubomyr Melnyk: “It has to be lived”
Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”
Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”
M.I.A.: “I made it to where that actions begins”
Mark Ronson: “I’m very aware of my place in music”
Matty Healy: “Nostalgia is beautiful”
Max Richter: “I like to get to the essentials”
Mick Jagger: “Excess was the order of the day”
Mick Rock: “I blame the name”
Missy Mazzoli: “Struggle is part of the process”
Moby: “I don’t want anything from music”
Mykki Blanco: “I was in an existential place”
Neil Young: “You have to break out of it”
Nelly Furtado: “Let’s pull the mask off now”
Nick Cave: “I don’t think that people want to be like me”
Nick Mason: “No one owes anyone anything”
Nico Muhly: “Pick your battles”
Nils Frahm: “Everything can be used for the music”
Noah Goldstein: “I’ve always trusted my taste”
Ólafur Arnalds: “It’s not the end of the journey”
Patti Smith: “Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”
Paul Banks: “I feel like they’re evocative enough”
Peaches: “Every kind of art is a privilege”
Peter Hook: “A magic that people can tune in to”
Philip Selway: “Allow yourself to be in the moment”
Pusha T: “People can hear passion”
Randall Goosby: “It’s not just notes on a page”
Richie Hawtin: “I’m interested in man and machine”
Rita Ora: “I didn't have the answers”
Roger Waters: “We are on a knife’s edge”
Róisín Murphy: “Everything became about music”
Rolando Villazón: “It’s a liberating feeling”
Rufus Wainwright: “I don’t preach”
RZA: “I knew where to go”
Seong-Jin Cho: “It’s an endless journey”
Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”
Sheila Atim: “This is who we are”
Shirley Manson: “I’m enough for me”
Sonny Rollins: “I’m part of the universal spirit”
Sonya Yoncheva: “Art cannot be lost”
Syd: “I’m ready to move forward”
The Chemical Brothers: “That feeling lives with you”
The National: “At peace with the darkness”
Wayne Coyne: “You get to be a bigger version of yourself”
William Orbit: “I’m absolutely open”
Willo Perron: “I never wanted to be very singular”
Yann Tiersen: “Music is not language”
Yoann Lemoine: “I’m not there yet”
