Quotes About Eclecticism

I have always aimed for versatility.

That's what my game is built around: versatility.

I want to do everything and not get stuck with just one type of roles.

I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll definitely gravitate to it and spin it in my own way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

I've always listened to different styles of music to make sure I'm balanced. I feel like if you only listen to your type of music you can never go outside of it.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.

I try to be very current. I try to take something from everywhere I've been. I've wrestled in Japan, Singapore, China, Germany, and England. I try to bring a mix of different styles to the table.

What I've always liked as an actor is to do a lot of different kinds of things. I've done musicals, stage, TV and lots of different styles of work.

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

People always think I just focus on rap, but I listen to every type of music. If I like a song it don't matter what genre of music it is. I might listen to Duran Duran, I might listen to Sublime, maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

A great library is anything and everything. It is not for its current custodians to judge what the future will find to be of importance, and it is this eclecticism that gives it the mystique, that is the wonder of it.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

The only thing that is truly Londonish about London is that it's all bits and pieces of everybody else.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.