Tom Jenkinson Quotes

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we continued in that direction, our career would be finished. So I kind of led the band to making 'Cornerstone,' which is an album from my point of view which was not trying to be necessarily softer, but more natural.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

With 'The Theory of Everything,' it seems that people really like the voice I've found with the music, which is great. But I may not do that again. Every project is different.

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

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years.

I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

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.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.