Well, 'Crunk Rock' doesn't mean rock. Initially when I started the album, I did collaborate with a bunch of rock musicians and producers. But as I started to have time to free my mind and catch different vibes, it started to mean something different.
My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.
If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
Bubblegoth is about putting things together that don't necessarily go together.
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.
In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari prints, to create something unique and memorable.
I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new.
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
I wear modern... vintage.
I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.
I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.
We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.
