Kenneth Edmonds Quotes

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 try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

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.

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.

I'm universal. As much as I can get out a 'Firework' with Katy, I can get a 'Lil Freak' out with Usher. Or a 'Lay It Down' with Lloyd. I can get Caribbean as I did on 'Rio,' then go from there to working with No Doubt.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

I think it's hard to put a finger on my music. My music has always been an amalgamation of everything I listen to, which includes everything and anything under the sun. Hip-hop to country to R&B to pop, all the things I'm inspired by find a way into what I do.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard that Kendrick was a fan of my music. Hopefully there's a door open for us to do music together. He's one of my favorite artists. I love Jazmine Sullivan, Lianne la Havas, Usher, Ginuwine. It goes further than classic soul.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone.

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

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.

I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.