82 Quotes by Mark Ronson

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.

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You’ve got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.

You know, it’s weird. It’s – it hasn’t really changed my life in any kind of way that I can measure. I mean, it’s obviously such an insanely amazing thing. You know, none of my other records I’ve ever had before even broke into the top 100.

It’s like every time you have one of these, you’re sort of – your lease is renewed another five years. And that’s kind of great for me ’cause that’s all I really want to be doing still at this point, like just making records and getting to work with, like, artists that I think are exciting.

I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it ’cause you’re thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.

And then, also, when you’re doing something that doesn’t sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to, like, ironclad it to make sure it gets through, you know?

And music is kind of a – it’s like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You’re hot one minute; you’re not – you know, I’ve been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it – it did come out of a jam at Bruno’s studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

D’Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.