Mat Kearney Quotes

I don't make music for Christians. I make music for everyone. I make music for the masses.

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.

I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

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

I am perfectly aware of my position in commercial music.

I love mainstream music.

My whole goal in this industry nowadays is to keep doing the underground stuff, but to be able to add vocals that are sexy and underground.

I didn't set out to write pop hits.

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

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.

I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

I used to listen to Jay Z a lot.

I feel like rock n' roll has become very tame.

Tribute bands have kind of taken over the market, and I don't want to come across as being that.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

You'll see an erosion of rock 'n' roll for sure... if you're playing a mainstream festival, you don't want to be the rock guy when everyone else is talking about Swedish House Mafia.

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

I want to make music for everybody.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.

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

You have to know who you're making music for.

I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.