Mika Quotes

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

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 really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

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

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

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 didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

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

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.