Song Collaboration Quotes

So the Madonna thing, I wrote a song with Diplo, she liked it, tweaked it and then made it her own and it became 'Hold Tight.'

I did 'We Can't Stop' for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play 'We Can't Stop' I was like 'this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.'' I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.,' why don't I go to the girl who did 'Party in the U.S.A.?'

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

I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.

I got a call from my manager who told me Diplo was working on a country project. I put my vocal on the songwriting demo and my team sent the song to his team. Evidently they fell in love with it... and the rest is history.

One day. I was putting on a hill in Zurich, and a few hundred yards away, Diana Ross was doing a sound test at an arena for a performance that night of 'Take My Breath Away,' my song with her. That was a very nice game, an incredible feeling.

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

I had written the song 'aaza aaza Shamiyane ke tale... ' for Ghai's film 'Yuvvraj' but he felt the song did not suit his film and Rahman suggested that the track should be used in 'Slumdog' and it fitted well with the movie.

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

There is a layer of Armaan's voice in the hook line of 'Kar gayi chull' and it was mainly his voice there, but he wasn't credited in the track.

I get on really well with Jake Gosling, who is a great producer, and I have written a song with Fraser T Smith.

I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.

Collaborating on lyrics has never worked for me.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

I was so excited to do 'Slow' with Matoma. The song is lyrically so beautiful, and the production brings it all to life.

I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.

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

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.