“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically...” — Jeff Buckley Quote

“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.”

“Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.”

“I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.”

“Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.”

“Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.”

“I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.”