We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry.
I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.
What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
I've got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I'm offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.
My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.
Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.
I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.
I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.
'Pinata' is a great rap record for jazz fans.
My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'
I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.
To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.
I'm coming from the zone of Faith Evans, but with weird production.
I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.
I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.
Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.
When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with me: that idea, that ambition, to draw off the roots of music but take it somewhere fresh.
