Joey Jordison Quotes

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement.

I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.

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.

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things for me as a musician and a writer and a producer is to feel like there's always a sense of evolution and reinvention with each record.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.