I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.
There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it.
Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop producer, I'm one of those that can do anything, because I was raised on so much music aside from rap and hip-hop.
I'm fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors is versatility, those that morph and change, those kind of chameleon actors who are unrecognisable from one job to another. That's something that I aspire to establish myself.
My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.
I don't have a preferred medium of work, but like all actors, I do like to move from one to the other if possible.
I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.
I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
I'm open to different kinds of roles, characters and genres.
On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.
Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.
My musical knowledge goes beyond hip-hop.
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.
I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.
It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.
My aim is to do all genres, both entertainment and art.
