Quotes About Genre

Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.

I have always been infatuated with country music.

I'm a big fan of country music.

I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.

I love country music.

I've always liked country music.

I'm not trying to claim I'm a country singer, but I do love country music.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

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 think I've covered every other genre. The truth is, I'm a horror fan myself. When I started in this business, horror wasn't cool. But it's cool now. Horror attracts A-list talent. That wasn't the case when I started.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

A lot of the songs are very rock-oriented. My voice makes them country, and a lot of people think that is a strange combination... I think it creates something different and unique.

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

People go, 'Oh, you're another guy who crossed over to country.' I say, name another one. Name one other pop singer who's done what I've done as a country singer. There isn't one.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

I don't actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can't see the soul of the show. I want to be able to laugh and cry. That is where the magic is. I'm trying to get to that place.

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.