As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
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People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.
If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.
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