"It’s been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I’ve experienced." ― Adam Lambert Topic(s): Music Tags: period, transformative More From Adam Lambert "The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out." "I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there." "I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds." More In Music "If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music."― Clint Eastwood "But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound."― Jennifer Lopez "My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."― Ray Charles