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I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

Country music belongs to America.

I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.

I don't think there is much American music.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.