Conor Oberst Quotes

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I don't want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It's inevitable, and it's part of the deal. It's part of the job description.

Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

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 can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.