Yo Yo Honey Singh Quotes

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them.

I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

I got recognised for my work in 'Guru' as 'Tere Bina' became extremely popular, but very few people know that I have sung major lyrical portions of the song 'Maiyya' as well.

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I love Katy Perry.

I don't like the way a lot of music is going these days. No one buys it.

A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that's maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.

After the Jonas Brothers, I was like, 'What is next?'

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.

That's why I can't listen to a whole record of Adele's. She has the most amazing voice, but people must have convinced her they just want to hear love songs.

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches on.

I'm actually a big fan of Zion T and Crush. I think they're very impressive. They're very clear about their artistic identities.

I'm aware that I have a career. But, if I was the hottest in the game, songs all over the radio - let's say whoever produced made me super big. Like, that would be cool, but there would be something in me that goes, 'You only wrote the raps. You didn't make the beats. You didn't direct. You didn't do all that.'