MNEK Quotes

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.'

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

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.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I'm not just a remix guy.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

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

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.