What I loved most about 'Rhythm Nation' were the uniforms and the perfect group choreography.
'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.
I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.
I love Usher's 'Confessions.'
I'm not a huge big fan of music video.
People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.
If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.
I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.
I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.
I started dreaming of becoming a singer after seeing Michael Jackson in the 'Billie Jean' video. The mix of fantastic choreography and amazing music made such a huge impact on the music industry.
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
Personally, I loved our performance for the 2018 MAMA's. I loved our outfits and choreography.
When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.
A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.
I did 'We Can't Stop' for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play 'We Can't Stop' I was like 'this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.'' I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.,' why don't I go to the girl who did 'Party in the U.S.A.?'
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.
I don't want to be a small-time, independent, successful rapper.
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.
