Syd Quotes

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.