Jimmy Iovine Quotes

It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead... Ian Brown... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

Getting to write a song with Steve Vai - he was my first support.

If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

I don't intend to stop making music.

It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.

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

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

I love music with my soul, but I'm also a student of it, so it's very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.

I'd love to work with Cher Lloyd; that would be my dream person to work with.

I am inspired and would love to work with Jack Garrett, Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots, and Jack Antonoff.

In the beginning, I wanted to work with Slim Duncan. He actually passed away right around when I started making beats.

My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

I've grown up listening to Gorillaz, so for me to, like, be asked to be on the album is an honour.

I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying."

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.