Genre Authenticity Quotes

When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio.

With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.

I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone's just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down - a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against.

I want to reach back to when R&B meant something, to when it made impressions on people.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

Whatever films we make we should be honest in the genre we are making.

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.

The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!'

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.