Tink Quotes

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

That's the cool thing, when I get to work with people I love. The biggest has probably been Kris Kristofferson on 'Bloodworth.'

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.

I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I'd rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.

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

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

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.

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.

I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.