Natasha Khan Quotes

I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

Rock music is niche.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

I don't like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don't just rap.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect - it's like we're making a product.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz' to play on a rock station. So it's difficult. It's difficult to make it playing this kind of music.

I love writing and producing but I don't think a lot of people know my artist stuff.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I think that's one of the beautiful things about this genre is that everyone who's in it isn't in it to make a million bucks and be popular, because that's not always our M.O. Really, I think the last time that rock was truly in the mainstream was probably a point in time in the '90s when there was a lot of alternative that was on the pop charts.

Our first record as the Veronicas was a big mainstream success. Maybe if we'd had the indie record first, then the breakout record, it would have been supported by Triple J.

I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music.

I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

I never considered myself like a pop musician or rock star, because that didn't really exist when I started.

Our music is weird. It's not pop. I don't know why so many people buy our records.