Kevin Lima Quotes

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

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

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

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

I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.

I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.

I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.

I love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together.

I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.

I was a Kimya fan for a long time, a Moldy Peaches fan, so I got to work on her 'Thunder Thighs' record a little bit and we became friends and just started writing songs.

Gunna was the second person I ever made a song with.

I don't know if Kim Gordon does collaborations but I'd love to work with her on something one day.

I feel blessed and lucky that some of the film industry's most magical and iconic songs where legendary composers and singers have collaborated have been filmed on me.

I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time.