Enough Quote by DJ Premier

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

— DJ Premier

We wanted to do an early 90's R&B song. I think it was Jorma who said, 'What about giving a gift where you take…

— Andy Samberg

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

I read someplace that when I was signed to EMI, they reeled in the 'hit-makers.' The presumption is that 'cause you're a young girl,…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

“They wanted to manipulate our songs—our fantastic, well-written songs with a soulful drive—beautiful English R&B—and turn them into pop rubbish. We might as well…

— Diane Rinella

But while I was working with my team to conceptualize 'White Night', we hit writer's block and couldn't come up with a single that…

— Taeyang

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best…

— Brendon Urie

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find…

— Randy Bachman

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of…

— Mark Hoppus

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

— Mark Kozelek

R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and…

— Ry Cooder

I've literally been in sessions with producers, writing for other people, and they're like, 'We need a song for this artist, and we need…

— Kate Nash