Steve Young Quotes

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

I've become really aware since putting out music that some people can't get past the acting thing. But acting was never what I meant to do.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

Being in a band with guys didn't feel like what I should be doing.

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

I never went out to make the music that people would like. I mean, I tried, because every teenager tries to do that. But in my heart, I'd always come from gigs where I played upbeat guitar covers and I'd start writing sad songs on the piano.

My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and yet I find it impossible not to think of myself as a dad-in-training when I listen to it.

I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.