Murda Beatz Quotes

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.

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

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.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

I'd love to work with Cher Lloyd; that would be my dream person to work with.

I am inspired and would love to work with Jack Garrett, Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots, and Jack Antonoff.

Obviously there's so many great artists out there that I'd love to work with.

Getting to write a song with Steve Vai - he was my first support.

Drake is a lyrical genius, and he's great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter.

My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.

I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time.

'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I'd rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.

I dunno - it's like, again, Juice was super big for me in terms of inspiration, and I learned a lot from him in terms of his recording process and stuff like that.

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with.

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

One of my dreams is to work with Ilaiyaraaja sir and do more with Anirudh and Santhosh Narayanan.

When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.

I was like, 'If I bang your thing, will you bang my thing? Will you sing on my album?' And he was like, 'Yeah, of course.' So I've got Robbie Williams on my album. Robbie Williams on grime.

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.