It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.
Music is so transient. You've just got to move with it.
I'm not more into one scene than any other, and that's why I feel very lucky to be able to go into two different styles of music and be successful at both.
50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
I'm versatile with my sound. I can switch it up a lot.
I work pretty fluidly across all genres.
I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.
I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion," and that's a very broad definition.
I just don't feel limited by genre.
Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.
I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.
I want to show everybody the diverse me and show people that I can do a tune on an R&B song, I can do a tune on a house song, I can do something on an Afrobeat. I really want to show that.
I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.
Well, I like the idea of seeing every piece of music as fluid. I see the tracks as places almost, structures you can inhabit and explore.
Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.
