Alan Jackson Quotes

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging them. I'm not slandering them. I'm not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.

If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster.

I never considered myself like a pop musician or rock star, because that didn't really exist when I started.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

I would say that all the singles that I have put out are collectively just a small piece of the artist that Thomas Rhett wants to be.

It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can understand it. My immediate past is pop-rock, and people don't know a ton about me as a kid - yet. They will soon.

The last thing I want to do is just be another voice on country music radio.

Honestly, I don't really hear the comparisons to Taylor Swift anymore. I think it's because people are finally starting to see me for who I am and my craft and not being the next Taylor.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'