Pat Benatar Quotes

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken - he would be amazed at the changes in my song writing.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

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.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.