Ezra Koenig Quotes

I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.

I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

I rap and I sing, so then you've got a bit of hip-hop in there. I'm Jamaican, so you got a bit of dancehall. And I'm from London, so there's a bit of London things in there... And at sometimes, it's a little bit Afrobeat.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

My music is very global.

We write serious music, but we also are a real band where we don't take ourselves too seriously.

To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.

At the start, it would kind of been more about freestyling. But then I started to sing over the beats. And then came a realisation that maybe I was alright at rapping, and people seemed to enjoy it, but when I sung, it was a real difference. Just the reaction of people, I was like, 'I think I should do that, cause it feels better.'

At the end of the day, I love singing, whatever the style might be.

I love futurist music.

You put my voice on R&B melodies, on top of a real country band, and the sky's the limit.

I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

I'm a really new artist here. I would say that my style is an artist who can dance and sing. That's why my album is really upbeat. Maybe we will try slowly to do ballads or middle tempo songs.

I want to keep the same kinda vibe where we've got the dance element and hip-hop. I'm going to be singing a lot more, and I want to write more heartfelt songs.

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.