Unique Rendition Quotes

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

I don't feel like songs should be hoarded. I don't feel like one's tainted if somebody else does it. That's the mark of artistry - take a song that's maybe even a really popular song and do it your own way. I think that's cool.

'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'