Oliver Sykes Quotes

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

'The Human Condition' is me exploring some ideas and thoughts that I have that don't fit one sound. I'm giving emotions a sound - it's a fusion of genres. There are four EPs in 'The Human Condition'; each title is a different emotion.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.

I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's just another soldier in the war to blur the lines and make things to where it's good music and bad music.

I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there.

When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn't do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical ... I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably a good name for it.'

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each one.

Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

I'm versatile with my sound. I can switch it up a lot.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.