Tierra Whack Quotes

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

I don't want to be labeled as a certain style producer; I just want to be producer and musician in general.

I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music.

I love mixing up my genres.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it's everything.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

If we do a record, and there's a reggae song, it's not shocking to us. If we do an all hip-hop song, it's not shocking to us. We all listen to that sort of music. It's not about what's in at the time; it's what feels right to us and what we're comfortable in doing.

I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.