Takeoff Quotes

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.

With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast.

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

When Quavo was out doing sports, I was in the studio, what we call the bando, making music, going hard.

With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the beats and I would be doing my thing writing and then we would both come together and say 'OK, you add this to it and I'll add that to it.'

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

I write new lyrics as I'm traveling and I like to record in the place where I had the original idea. Sometimes I rerecord when I get back to Barcelona because I have more-power studio there.

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

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

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'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

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

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

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.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.