Leon Russell Quotes

I get on really well with Jake Gosling, who is a great producer, and I have written a song with Fraser T Smith.

I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

One of the great regrets of my life is that I don't play piano.

I wanted to play the piano.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.

I love playing music with Duane Eddy.

I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.

Pharrell is a legend.

The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.

I'm a big Taylor Swift fan. I really like her song 'Mean.'

Me and Kehlani have music together, and I love her.

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

Girls Generation, I love their Teddy Riley-produced track 'The Boys.'

I came to work one day, and Ricky was playing music on his guitar, just snickering. He played me the riff that turned out to be 'Rock Lobster,' and it was hilarious. He was just trying to be funny. His guitar style made it moodier, and it really is a driving song, but it does have that funny humor to it.

There's a single with D.J. Class and Fatman Scoop - I'm not going to claim to be a singer, but my voice is in it and the song is technically about me.

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.'

Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different' in 2005, and the song we're working on now will be one of my future projects.

Doing 'New Rules x Are You That Somebody?' was really, really fun.