Adam Lambert Quotes

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.

You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

The fun for me musically is that you never quite know what works and why. So why pretend you do? Why not just put things together and discover, in the creative process, if and why they work? That approach has served me well.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.

I'm a stand-up comic, but I also have ideas, and I want to get them out. People think getting in front of the mic is the only way to work out. You've got to try different situations.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

In my music, I'm never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.

I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds.

I like to dress the way I like to dress. I kind of like rebelling against the social norms... I feel uncomfortable wearing just, like, regular stuff.

Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

E-40 taught me a long time ago to try different things with my voice, experiment, and only roll with it if it feels right.

I'm like Madonna, I'm not afraid to offend.