Waka Flocka Flame Quotes

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

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 didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value is Ghost and my writing via Ghost.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

When I got into the Nashville scene, with the Ross Coppermans and Zach Kales and Jon Nites and Nicolle Galyons, all these people who have No. 1 hits with huge celebrities, they were able to show me creative ways and right ways of formulating songs.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

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

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

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 will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.