The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

If you’re going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don’t love it, then we don’t need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

Reggaeton is a global genre.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

Rock music is niche.

No, there’s something about the sing-song cadence of children’s music that has its place in rock.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.