LP Quotes

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

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

I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.

It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out.

Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.

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

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

I'm aware of the subgenres and why they exist. But I don't feel like I have to limit myself. I don't feel like I just have to play deep house, just play tribal house, just play progressive house. I wouldn't feel right if I had to limit myself.