I Rarely Ever Respond To Misquotes And

So When I Was Working With Amy Winehouse On "back To Black," You Know, She Had All These Beautiful Songs, Incredibly Well-written And Just Her On An Acoustic, Nylon-string Guitar. And She'd Play Them For Me, And Then I Would Kind Of Drum Up My Idea Of What I Thought - Make A Demo With What I Thought The Drums Should Be Doing, The Guitars - Like, Quite A Crude Demo.

D'angelo Could Sing The Phonebook And It Would Sound Good.

I Guess The Best Thing About Having A Successful Record Like This Is, Like, I Know I'm At Least Good For Another Five Years, Like, Before Everyone Starts To Like - All The Haters Start To Come Out Again. And That's Really What It Is.

Being A Die-hard Knicks Fan, I Remember Hunting Down These Orange-and-blue Nikes That They Only Released In England. And I Used To Hunt For Sneakers When I Dj'd In Japan. But Then Nike Flooded The Market With A Head-spinning Array Of Color Combinations And It Just Didn't Seem Cool Anymore.

So Sometimes If I'm Working With A Rapper, Like Ghostface Killah Or Nas, Producing Usually Means, In Hip-hop, That You Make The Music. You Make The Beat, And You Give It To Them. And They Write The Rhymes.