Shura Quotes

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

I fly to London or the U.S. to record my music nearly once a month.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I don't intend to stop making music.

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

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

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.

Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brown's song 'Get Away'. I told myself that I would have my own group like New Edition one day.

James Morrison just had a new album come out and I think he's incredible. I'd love to work with him, his voice is insane.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

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

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

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.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris... there are so many artists and producers.