Adam Lambert Quotes

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

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.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

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

Switching genres actually motivates me.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

As an artist, I would never let myself get boxed in. I'm a human being, too, and like most humans, I have interest in many different types of music.

Stay adventurous with that musical taste.