Jeongyeon Quotes

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

We love the great Disney songs - they have always inspired us in our work and in our lives! But for 'Let It Go,' we looked elsewhere - to powerful female singer-songwriters like Tori Amos, Aimee Mann, Sara Bareilles, Adele.

Lennon and McCartney became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all types of music.

'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it.

As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

I draw inspiration from everywhere, whether it's country, R&B, gospel.

I first fell in love with music when I was five years old because of 'Annie.' And then 'The Little Mermaid' really made me want to start singing. And then the fierce, amazing women of the '90s - Alanis Morrissette, Courtney Love, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Paula Cole, Patty Griffin - made me want to start writing.

I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

I know how important '36 Chambers' is, and it inspired me to record 'Lifted.'

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.