Shruti Haasan Quotes

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

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

I like working with new artists.

I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

Needless to say, when I work on a film, it's mostly just me alone in my room just waiting to present the music to the director - and either he likes it or not.

On my first album nobody asked me for a lot of advice. It was a producer's album. We were sent the same type songs with stock melodies. It was my first album and I was happy to do about anything they'd ask me.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

Playback singing has always been my dream.

We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

I know singers; I've worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

I always said that someday I'm going to sing on a record.