Babyface

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

“I enjoy music that is commercial.”

“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 was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.”

“Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.”

“There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.”

“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.”

“I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.”

“Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.”

“It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.”

“I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.”

“The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.”

“It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.”

“Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.”

“When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.”

“I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.”

“I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.”

“It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.”

“I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.”

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