Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was crazy.

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.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris... there are so many artists and producers.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over.

As an artist, I am for non-film music as well. I want that to shine as much as Bollywood.

I am a pop and R&B singer. I'm not necessarily an Indian singer or musician. I sing in English, and the music I do blends hip hop, pop, R&B, and soul.

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

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

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

It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited him best from material supplied by publishing houses and teams of writers - all of whom were extremely conscious of his style of delivery.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.