Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
Cat PowerI've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.
Cat PowerIf your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
Cat PowerFrom folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
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