I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.
I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.
I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but I never want to be stuck in my song choices.
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
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 don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.
Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.
I don't think I was ever meant to be tied down to one band for the rest of my life, playing one style of music.
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.
Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.
I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.
I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show.
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
I just don't let music genres define me.
I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.
