Quotes About Artists

When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

I'm a massive fan of Troye Sivan, Ariana Grande, and Justin Timberlake.

I've grown up listening to Jack Johnson and John Mayer. But I also love to groove on stage like Justin Timberlake.

I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

I grew up on Jodeci and R. Kelly.

I think Jive was just a shady label that they didn't want artists in the same room like, 'Hey, what you making?' Like I never worked with R. Kelly, I never worked with Q-Tip. I never worked with anybody that was on Jive. I never did a song with KRS-One.

I enjoy watching Daniel Day Lewis, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey.

I love Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Usher, Mariah Carey... all that stuff.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

I always sing Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie,' but also Kings Of Leon's 'Use Somebody.'

I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.

I listen to Migos. I listen to Drake a lot. Also 21 Savage, Kodak Black, XXXTentacion.

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and 'Bandz a Make Her Dance' was first taking off.

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

Labels don't want artists to put out mixtapes because they don't monetize it.

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

I've seen a lot of artists fall out with their labels and be irrelevant when they come back.