Phife Dawg Quotes

I definitely want to put out and album, kind of like a Kelly Clarkson vibe: a soulful voice with a pop rock background. I think it's something that I've always loved and always loved to perform. So that's the kind of album that I'd like to put out.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the same vibe as the 'Buddy Holly' video in that you just knew it was going to work.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has a great voice and great artistry. Who else? On the producer side of things, definitely Diplo: that'd be awesome.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs.

I would love to work with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, because I love their music and they are responsible for a lot of incredible stuff.

When I feel it, I got it, 'cause, like, on 'Changes,' I didn't never know what that song was, never knew who it was or who did it, but Tom Brenneck asked me to do that song.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

When I singed 'Love Dose' with Yo Yo Honey Singh, I heard the song and got hooked to it.

It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.