BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

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

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.

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.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Where do you even draw the line between genres?

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to maximise sales.

I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

For me, the '80s was great because you had Boy George, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Cyndi Lauper. No one put boxes saying this is urban, this is popular, this is underground. It was just good or bad.

Years ago, when I was making music, I was sending it off to radio stations and getting told it was 'too urban.' But what else am I supposed to make?

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.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

I don't think a song should be put in a category.