I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.
I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.
I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but I never want to be stuck in my song choices.
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.
I don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.
Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.
I don't think I was ever meant to be tied down to one band for the rest of my life, playing one style of music.
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.
Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.
I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.
I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.
Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show.
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
I just don't let music genres define me.
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.
