Skylar Grey

Grey blames her career failures on her own laziness and lack of effort when she was younger.

“All the failures that I've had, I realized were my fault for being, you know, lazy or not putting in the effort and the grind”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:56:16

Grey says many music industry 'experts' are failed, bitter artists telling others how to proceed.

“a lot of the experts in the game are just people who were artists and didn't make it, and now they're bitter”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 20:23

Grey recounts that an algebra teacher telling her music was not a career motivated her to drop out and pursue music.

“She told me music isn't a career. And I was like, I'll show you, bitch”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 11:56

Grey describes Wasted Potential as a coming-of-age album about her small-town Wisconsin upbringing and discovering her sexuality.

“it's an album where I'm telling the story of my like upbringing in small town, Wisconsin. Um, discovering my sexuality”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:54:05

Grey states her goal is to release an album every year rather than every five years.

“my goal in regards to that is to put out an album every year instead of every five years”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:49:34

Grey predicts AI will lead people to value human-made art, nuance, and imperfection more.

“it'll make us value real human made art more and value like nuance and mistakes and things not being perfect”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 6:00

Grey argues AI is simply another tool for creatives, comparable to Auto-Tune and computers when they were introduced.

“To me, I see them as just tools that creatives can use to get their vision across”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 2:56

Grey says her songs that come with less effort tend to be better than ones she overthinks.

“The songs that take less effort tend to be the better songs. And the songs that I slave over to try to get them perfect and overthink, they end up doing nothing”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:36:32

Grey says the hit gave her imposter syndrome because the hook took only 15 minutes to write.

“I definitely had a little imposter syndrome when I wrote that song, because I was just like, that was too easy”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:30:02

Grey recounts that the hook she sent Alex da Kid from an Oregon cafe became a number-one song a month later.

“the first one I did was called Love the Way You Lie. And a month after I sent Alex that hook, it was a number one song”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:27:05

Grey explains that dry farming makes vines struggle so roots reach deeper, producing more concentrated flavor.

“it makes the vines struggle in a good way. So it makes them reach deeper, like the roots reach deeper into the ground”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2504 - Skylar Grey (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 41:47