Dr. Luke

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Listen, there's been times in my life like the two years that I only listened to jazz, and probably nothing after 1966. When I went to the Manhattan School of Music, the library didn't have anything after 1966. In order to get good at that, I had to tunnel-vision and focus on that.”

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

“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.”

“I think there's a way to do classic songs and produce them electronically, and I feel like the eighties did a lot of that.”

“You're always super stoked when you see that your song did go the distance and people are recognizing it.”

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

“First of all, I really appreciate what I've got and I know that we're all sort of on borrowed time. I think I'm also kind of neurotic and scared - I never feel, like, 'Oh, I got this on lock, no problem.' I think that combined with having such an amazing team that are bringing in fresh ideas is what's made it work.”

“If I'm not happy with something and I don't feel like it's right, I won't put it out.”

“I grew up in New York.”

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

“I've read that I'm ruining music. It makes me kind of laugh.”

“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 do believe that music will change and has to change in some capacity, and I'll either change and reinvent or sink or swim.”

“A hit record is a matter of a million things going right.”

“There's no amount of money that would make me do something that I didn't want to do.”