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Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

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

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

One thing I liked about 'Silver Bell' is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It's just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything.

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

Theatre is a playground. It really is, and we should use that playground more.

In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'

I'm a stand-up comic, but I also have ideas, and I want to get them out. People think getting in front of the mic is the only way to work out. You've got to try different situations.

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

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

What I'd like to do is try as many different ways of working as possible. That's what I'm looking to do - collaborate with as many different directors.

We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

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