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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

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 grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.