Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

I'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

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.

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

I only want to write a song with the people who want to write a song with me.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

I'm lucky to be collaborating with a lot of great songwriters/producers - and it's all about chemistry!

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows, and talk about maybe writing some songs together. We started doing that, and then one thing led to another and it became this Vampire project - because he was telling stories about all those days, which were fascinating.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.