Arjun Janya Quotes

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.

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.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

My personal favorite person we worked with in the U.K. is Cathy Dennis, who is absolutely incredible. She wrote 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' for Kylie Minogue and 'Toxic' for Britney Spears, so she's one of my absolute favorite pop writers.

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

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

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

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

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.