Quotes from Nile Rodgers

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.

I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.