Bjork Quotes

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but just to work with a rapper, I don't think is really my thing. I really like songs, like true songs. Like indie songs.

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.

I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great.

When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.

I'm aware that I have a career. But, if I was the hottest in the game, songs all over the radio - let's say whoever produced made me super big. Like, that would be cool, but there would be something in me that goes, 'You only wrote the raps. You didn't make the beats. You didn't direct. You didn't do all that.'

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.

I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's the problem!

Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.

I was lucky enough to be in the studio with Drake and Kanye before I put 'Freaky Friday' out. I showed them the video before I put it out.

We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.

I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.

I got to meet Kanye West because we were shopping my artist deal, and I was interested in his label. When I met him, I played him all the records I had. He introduced me to Rihanna, and she recorded and cut some of those records.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I was offered a jingle, and that led to another one, followed by composing music for documentaries. It got me in contact with other artistes on the scene. We would meet, jam up, and that's how Silk Route was formed.

From Jay-Z to Nas to Kanye to whoever, I'm just not the type to say, 'Hey, let me get on your album.' If they want me, they're going to reach out and say, 'I need a joint from you.'

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.