Quotes About Artistry

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

If anybody in the business can capture the spirit of 'Pony,' it would have to be Rihanna.

I think 'Westworld' and 'Hap and Leonard' are two of the greatest things that you can do with this oversized pool of the television medium.

A great artist is never poor.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.

I love pop music, I love country music.

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.

I don't have to, like, try to come out with pop music because I feel that that's gonna make me sell a lot more. I mean, I make the music I love to make and that's it.