165 Quotes by Bruno Mars

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.