I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
I don't want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.
In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
The game has gotten a lot faster. I was anticipating changes as far back as when I first came into the league, when the spacing was changing, and big guys were playing in different spaces on the floor. But when that change actually happens, and it happens so quickly, it's just amazing.
I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.
Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.
People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.
It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.
Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.
In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.
I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'
I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits.
The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.
Just look at the transformation Taylor Swift made from being pop country to pop pop. There are very specific things she cut out and very specific things she adopted.
One thing I didn't think upon getting married: that my style would - or could - change.
I'll never forget my transition from pleated pants to plain front pants. It was the late '80s. I couldn't get rid of those pleated pants fast enough.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
