Babyface

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different. ”

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician. ”

Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable. ”

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. ”

The Internet is a whole new world opening up. ”

I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion. ”

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals. ”

If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing. ”