Alexander McQueen Quotes

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

I got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

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

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a soulful voice that feels like it's from a different era, I mean, it felt so fresh and unique, and that was something that opened my eyes and made me believe that it's not always about churning out the same thing in this industry.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.