Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cainis an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work with The Babys, Journey and Bad English...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
song creative path
I doubted my creative spirit three years ago and God showed me a way to praise Him through song. It opened the door to a whole tapestry of images and concepts that were brand new for me and I continued on that path.
believed climb dragging heavy
It was like dragging a sled up a hill, a very heavy sled. It's been a long way to climb our way back, and yet I always believed in this catalog.
anytime
Anytime you get in on something that's new and trendy, it's cool.
greatest hits playing songs touching
We're going to be playing songs from our new album, Generations, and then touching on the greatest hits the songs that made us popular.
changing mixing music
We've been changing our music over the years, mixing it up.
giving sort taste
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
check gonna hit next starving
I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.
album less mix playful poppy styles
It's a tougher-edged album less poppy and a little more rock. It's a playful mix of the different styles that we embrace.
bet bigger everybody head music
You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'
driven heart music sing speaks universal
There must be something in the heart of the music that speaks to different generations. We were never part of the c--k-rock, we were never a politically driven band, and we sing about universal things.
appeals best bombarded chose hum journey kinds music nod
They're bombarded with all kinds of music, yet they chose to hum ours. That's the best nod you can get. The best testimonial to Journey is it appeals to the ages.
albums award band celebrate ceremony diamond fitting good honored performing received rock seems together
We're honored to be performing with a band that received their Diamond Award (given for 10,000,000 albums sold) at the same ceremony when we received our Diamond Award. So it seems fitting that we go out together after all these years and celebrate a lot of good years of rock and roll.
catalog either half hit lots third tremendous wrote
We've got a tremendous catalog of lots of hit songs, which I wrote either a half or a third of
albums beetle sort
We're sort of superstitious now. The albums that had the beetle on it did better than the ones that didn't. It's with us. It's part of our allure.