Quotes from Dr. Luke

Basically I feel like my role is to find great songs with the artists, for the artists, and have them shine.

With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.

Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you're really managing people and getting the best out of them.

My problem with eighties songs is they take too long to get to the chorus.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

There's no compromise to me in what I'm doing. I'm trying to make songs that I love and make them feel a certain way and go to certain places. It just so happens that a lot of 13-year-old girls like that.

The hardest thing, and the most difficult thing, is to do the most simple thing. Because that means that you've had to weed out every other option. I kind of feel like that about a good pop song, too. When it's right, it's perfect, you know?

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through writing songs, that's a pretty cool thing to do.

Kesha and I made a lot of songs together and it was often good but there were creative differences at times.

Becky G is a huge priority for me.

I really love Stuart Price, he's a great producer and beat maker.

For me to just be a face on something, I'd look at myself and be disappointed. I'd rather be the person behind the scenes making the show.

I'm looking for voices that are distinctive. That's the most important thing to me. I mean, obviously they have to be able to sing.

If you listen to Tears for Fears, they had great melodies and less rigid cut-and-paste.

If you look at the charts, there's not a lot of male artists and for whatever reason, female artists sell a lot more records and get played a lot more on the radio.

Sometimes you have to do things in people's best interests and they don't even know it, and maybe they'll figure it out later and thank you, and maybe they won't. Most likely they won't.

I feel like Britney kind of has her own genre: If you look at songs like 'Toxic' and 'Piece of Me' and 'Oops! I Did It Again,' they all were sort of influential and led the way.

For me, I'm more a fan of the songs than of the artists because often, it's not worth getting the whole album. There's usually a few singles and the rest of it is politics or something.

I can sign things that I love that may not be selling millions of singles but that are just awesome music.

I have 3 sisters, a daughter, and a son with my girlfriend, and a feminist mom who raised me right.

I don't want to disappoint people. Especially with an icon like Britney. You don't want to be the one who messed it up.

Well, each artist has something special about them. And I try to find whats best in them and find a song that works with it.

A list songwriters and producers are reluctant to give Kesha their songs because of her weight.