Record Producer Quotes

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I’ll be strong, I’ll be wrong, oh but life goes onOh, I’m just a girl, trying to find a place in this world

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I find you offensive for finding me offensive

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I am not a fan of books.

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

Sparks Fly whenever you smile!

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

I don't think there's such a thing as falling in love too easily or falling too fast. Or loving someone too soon or trusting someone too soon... I've never treated two relationships the same. Some people move you and some people don't.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

I feel like me and Taylor [Swift] might still have sex. Why? I made that b - -h famous.

Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.

'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

Yeah, it's been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one Now some of you might still be in that place If you're trying to get out, just follow me I'll get you there

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.