Afrojack Quotes

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I wrote my album, and all this stuff is from me.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.

Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.

Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.

I'm not just a remix guy.

You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.

There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

If I write songs trying to top other songs, it's a lot of pressure.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.