Andy Biersack Quotes

I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and moved on to other things Simon remained the genius lyricist and composer.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I'm always forming bands.

My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.

I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.

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.

I've learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he's a serial collaborator. He's co-written songs with more people than anybody I know - like the most incredible people too.

I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.

'Sing Street' was the first time I'd worked so collaboratively.

We just want to be a band and play good music.

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

I'm a recording artist, a performing artist and a producing artist. All those things have everything to do with the outcome of my shows. I get myself studying every part of the game and not everyone has the characteristic to do that. In my mind, you need all three to become an artist.

It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner.

We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.

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.

Ne-Yo and I are great friends and we've worked on a bunch of stuff together back in the day.

AR Rahman is truly great.

It's hectic at times, but this is what any artiste wants: a hectic life with lot of travelling, performances, lots of love from fans, the opportunity to compose songs back-to-back, and a chance to share the stage with maestros like Zakir Hussain.