There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.
I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
Male rock stars are sexy because they desire you first. I want to be like that.
Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.
I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.
I like old rockabilly style. I always wear denim on denim with suspenders and slicked back hair.
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.
The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
I feel like I have something to prove. I'm just not this cool fashion kid that be around ASAP Rocky.
I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
