Mark Foster Quotes

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

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.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.