Jose James Quotes

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and chatting and getting to know how they work. Everybody has a different writing process so there was a lot of getting to know people, which can be fun and stressful at the same time.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.

I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.

If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make a beat to it or something.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

The way Beyonce works, the song is a jigsaw piece and then she will piece various elements.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

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.

Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.