Caroline Polachek Quotes

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

The only way I'm comfortable with a new album is if I'm taking a new risk.

Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

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.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive 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 never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

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

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.

I'm not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.