Joey Jordison Quotes

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

Working with Prince, it's kind of like he's opened up this whole new world, especially with the horn players. And I'm like, 'Man, only if I had strings on this album, too.' And I'm like, 'I wish I had an orchestra.' So I just, you know - I just wonder what's next, you know. I just want to constantly push myself for more.

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I became a singer and a songwriter by learning on the spot, so think I always need to be slightly out of my comfort zone when I do something. I've never stopped being experimental because that's how I started.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.

Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.