Charlotte Church Quotes

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

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

I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

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.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

I do very versatile music.

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.