It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.
People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that's not how things works. These are real human beings. They don't just date to get more famous. They're already the most famous artists!
I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
When artists find other artists that they love to work with, they more than likely will continue to work with them throughout their career.
Our business model rises or falls on our ability to serve the artists. If others can do it better, the artists will go elsewhere.
The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.
Some of the artists I've been working with it's been just work, you know what I'm saying? But in the industry I feel like the relationship is stronger than the work sometimes.
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.
There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.
It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
We believe being in long-term, deeper relationships with artists is a great strategy, we will be 100% pursuing it. There has never been a debate with Michael Cohl as to whether we should be in the Madonna business or be in long-term relationships, or be in more rights with artists.
You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
I worked with Ty Dolla Sign, YG, Nipsey Hussle, Metro Boomin - I build relationships, and I try to stay afloat with everyone who is hot or cool, period.
I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.
I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
