Genre Mismatch Quotes

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.

I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.

I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but they are being sold as romantic comedies. All it's going to do is just... that's hurting the work, because that just makes it impossible for anyone to see it correctly.

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.

I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.

I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.