Benny Blanco

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first…

— Benny Blanco

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know…

— Benny Blanco

I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is,…

— Benny Blanco

In hip hop, it's a lot more about lacing a hot track. I start it, I help mix it, I help write…

— Benny Blanco

I'm not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have…

— Benny Blanco

I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into…

— Benny Blanco

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we…

— Benny Blanco

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use…

— Benny Blanco

I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing…

— Benny Blanco

My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make music today in…

— Benny Blanco

Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive…

— Benny Blanco

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you…

— Benny Blanco

I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.A. or somewhere where we…

— Benny Blanco

I think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd…

— Benny Blanco

Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give…

— Benny Blanco

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song…

— Benny Blanco

I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the…

— Benny Blanco

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music…

— Benny Blanco

Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

— Benny Blanco

I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills…

— Benny Blanco

I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south…

— Benny Blanco

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start…

— Benny Blanco

I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'

— Benny Blanco

When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time…

— Benny Blanco

I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make…

— Benny Blanco