Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we're doing to the next level, without compromising.
I got a call from my manager who told me Diplo was working on a country project. I put my vocal on the songwriting demo and my team sent the song to his team. Evidently they fell in love with it... and the rest is history.
To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.
When Guru Randhawa and I sang, people really liked our chemistry.
I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.
I came up with Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Those guys, they took me under their wing at an early age.
Puff always does great collaborations, it's just you need that flair to make it work.
Neil and I had the greatest experience of our lives doing 'Chicago' with Latifah. Then we had the second best experience of our lives doing 'Hairspray.'
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.
I've know Jeezy before he was Jeezy. I've been down with Cash Money from back in the day. So these are real relationships. I'm there for them and they're there for me. And they know if I'm going to make a record with somebody, I'm gonna hit a home run.
I've had a great relationship with Fox since Day 1. Fox was the network that I wanted to be on.
I loved working with Michelle Fairley.
I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.
We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.
I suppose in some ways that's why my collaborations worked out, because I would go in the studio with such enthusiasm and it would never be a chore for me. I was never itching for the process to be done so we could get out live. It's a different matter for me now. Now I've noticed that I actually have one eye or one ear on how I'm going to do it on stage. And maybe that's because I'm the frontman in the group; I do believe that any good frontman should be impatient in the studio to get out.
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
You come back with an actor for the second time only when you had a successful and creatively satisfying experience the first time round.
What a joy to be working on the second series of 'Car Share' with the wonderful Sian Gibson. The success of the first series has been completely overwhelming.
I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.
One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.
I've been extremely lucky in my career, in terms of artists and colorists I've been able to work with, and I think 'Helheim' is a perfect example of that look playing out perfectly.
I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
You can never go wrong when you have a great team to work with.
