Kate Pierson Quotes

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.

Is it true that we must accept the music of another race as being that which is American? Have not the white Americans sufficient individuality to develop a characteristic style of composition.

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

I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

Growing up in my household with seven women, I'd hear all types of music.

A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.

Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's.

Ultimately, I'd like to create a body of work where every album has its own personality and a reason to exist within the catalog, not just 'more of the same.'

When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.

We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my personality, because I'm self-taught.

I don't think I have a genre at all.

I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.