Astrid S Quotes

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.

If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made sounds that shaded into jazz, folk, metal, and in the case of the wonderful (and sadly missed) Jon Lord, modern classical music.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.

Performing with Thomas Rhett our song 'Craving You,' I'm so excited for the fans to see it and sort of see our worlds come together because I feel like he's sort of a genre pusher and boundary pusher, and I feel the same way about my music.

I love finding talents to pair my music with such as Conrad on 'Firestone', Parson James with 'Stole the Show,' and Will Heard on 'Nothing Left.'

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

Bjork for sure. Definitely, I would like to do like something with Tommy Genesis, too. There's a lot of people actually.

I come from hip hop for sure, and there are basic elements of that, but then I'll take from somewhere else, like samba, and do it with trap drums. I like going places other people haven't gone before.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I grew up with all different genres of music, and I want to include that in my production as well.

My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

I used to do a lot of one-off collabs, features, stuff like that.

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.