Chinmayi Quotes

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has a great voice and great artistry. Who else? On the producer side of things, definitely Diplo: that'd be awesome.

I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was crazy.

As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

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

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

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

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.