Diana Silvers Quotes

I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'

'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.

With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.

I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.

As far as the melodic style, I feel like I'm in my own lane.

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

I got my own sound in Atlanta because I don't listen to anybody's music. When you listen to people's music, you start to say stuff they say as an artist because that's what you've been listening to. Me, I don't listen to anybody. I support, but I don't listen, because I don't want to run with someone style. I do my own thing.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

Working with Timbaland, you know it's not gonna sound like anything else out there today. The sound is very next-level.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.

Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

I'm a little bit of everything. That's what makes Nicky Jam so different from everybody else.

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever else. And in a way, 'Check Your Head' ended up being like one of those pause-tapes.

It was fine at the start but there's always politics in any band. It just happened that I always got more vocals than everybody else, so in terms of people wanting their voice heard, that wasn't happening. It made people, very bitter.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

It's really important to be free and be open and honest about the things you want to do. Just 'cause you want to make a solo record or another record with another band, it doesn't have to be an insult or a slight to the band you've been with for a long time.

I enjoy being able to do different kinds of music, not just to be eclectic but because those are all a part of me.

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.