I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.
I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.
One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'
Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.
You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
If Simon Cowell asked me, of course I would love to do 'X Factor.'
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the group. If Guru really wanted to super-dead it he would have said, 'Yo, I want out.' And I still would have tried to convince him to stay. We are still Gang Starr.
There are not many musicians from India who are working internationally in pop. My aim is to change that and show the world that we have so much more to offer.
When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
It's not about what hits Billboard or how many views you got on a video. It's about copies sold. It's about streams, you know?
I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.
New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.
I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.
I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with too many younger rappers or newer artists. People may consider me to be a music snob or whatever, but I like to preserve what's mine and I also don't just do tracks to do tracks, I make every song with a purpose.
I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.
That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.
I love Usher's 'Confessions.'
They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.
For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.
I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.
Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
