Rozonda Thomas Quotes

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

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.

Pharrell loves music. When I'm with him, it's like I'm working with someone that I've known all my life, and we're both there to make the sickest track we can.

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

I'm lucky to be collaborating with a lot of great songwriters/producers - and it's all about chemistry!

The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their minds on how they view it, too. The song that defines 'Neon Future' the best is the title track. I wrote that with Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun. It's through his words. We had an amazing songwriting session together, connecting.

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records.

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

Me and Miley just clicked. She has good ideas. She's real creative.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

I'd love to get in a room with Kanye at some point, have a conversation, and see if something cooks up.

Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.