Ramy Youssef Quotes

I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

I have this friend who does comedy but also music, and I really enjoyed his stuff, and I wanted to do that.

It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.

Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.