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.

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.

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.

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

Old school mission statements defined what an organization did. Contemporary mission statements define why an organization does what it does.

Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.

When I am awake, I sleep, but when I dream I come to life.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.