Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

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

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

It was a very critical moment for me when I began working with David Cronenberg and seeing this amazing director and creator choose to base himself out of Toronto.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

From its conception and that one and only meeting, 'HITNRUN' took about 90 days to prepare its release. If that's what freedom feels like, 'HITNRUN' is what it sounds like.

I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that's being put out there. I'll do anything with David Wain.

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.