Taylor Swift Quotes

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

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

My favorite rappers are, I can't really say. I like Kanye because he's so creative. He'll just do anything. I like what Kanye's bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

I love 50 Cent. I know it sounds weird 'cause a lot of kids might not say that right now, but I definitely want to work with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Coldplay: I want to work with different artists that are going to push my music to a new level. Not just in urban music.

Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he started making RnB: there would be no hip hop!

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

Even though 'Turn Down For What' is considered an EDM song, it's really a rap song.

Some of the greatest hip-hop artists have incorporated elements from electronic shows into their setup. People are taking notice. It's going to be a new wave.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

Well, 'Crunk Rock' doesn't mean rock. Initially when I started the album, I did collaborate with a bunch of rock musicians and producers. But as I started to have time to free my mind and catch different vibes, it started to mean something different.

I rap on 'Front Porch Junkies' and 'Whatcha Got in that Cup.' I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It's fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song.

I like the idea of blending genres.

'Drip Too Hard' - we knew that was the one.

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.

The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

I think Diplo is a true global artist. I feel that he is exposing country artists to his global reach and that's something that is rarely done in our genre.

I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.