Skepta Quotes

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

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

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

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.

I've always wanted to collaborate with Shawn Mendes, he's an amazing artist, but the thing with Shawn is that I won't collaborate... me just sending some beats. It has to be in the studio where we'd both be there recording together.

I don't care if it's Dr. Dre or Dr. Luke or Brian Eno. When you're in a studio and making music together, it becomes pretty apparent if you see eye to eye.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

Common and I have a long history of making great music together.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

We can be in the studio with the hottest producer, but we might not be able to create any magic! It's not about the hottest. It's about who we feel we have that connection with, and that's who we're going to be working with.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

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

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.