Juicy J Quotes

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

I'm always in the studio with my dad. I've written a few songs. I'll start off writing rhymes, then freestyles, then I add in beats.

We make songs like a factory and put them out.

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

I can't freestyle or else I'll just start saying anything, so I'll write the song first and then record. I'll rap to the producer and he'll make the beat off my rap.

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.

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 working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

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.