Paul Taylor Quotes

I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for 50 percent. All I know is that I have to do my job, and I have to do it well. And he has to do the same.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

That's the cool thing, when I get to work with people I love. The biggest has probably been Kris Kristofferson on 'Bloodworth.'

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.

The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.

I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

I like to oversee what I do, so I have a hand in writing my songs. I also have people there to help me with my vision.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.