Dr. Luke

“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.”

“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.”

“My music isn't Leonard Cohen. But people are going to smile when it comes on.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it's not routine for them, when it's really new is the best moment in their careers.”

“Apparently my taste is that of a 13-year-old girl. Not really. But my taste is commercial.”

“Becky G is a huge priority for me.”

“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.”

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

“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.'”

“All of their horrific allegations of abuse, threats and purported misconduct by me against Kesha are completely untrue and deeply hurtful.”

“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.”

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

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