Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.

Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

The President's very shrewd