The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.