Ally Brooke Quotes

I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has a great voice and great artistry. Who else? On the producer side of things, definitely Diplo: that'd be awesome.

I've been working a lot with Benny Blanco; he's a producer. And I've been working with Diplo and a bunch of other people. Detail, Charlie Handsome. A variety of people.

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

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

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.

Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was crazy.

I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.

I'm not just a rapper. I like to produce music.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.

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.

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

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.