I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing. – Babyface
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because – not that I wouldn’t be able to step up to it – but I wouldn’t love it. I wouldn’t want to be that person; that wouldn’t be my natural thing. – Babyface
I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it’s time to do the vocals. – Babyface
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it’s quality and something you don’t mind putting your name on. – Babyface
I think it’s not really difficult to write about love. We’ve been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say ‘I love you’ in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different. – Babyface
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that’ll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song. – Babyface
I don’t claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion. – Babyface
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people. – Babyface
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he’s gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That’s what I like about him. – Babyface
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, ‘I’ve got to play the Nokia, and that’s all I’m going to pull in is the Nokia.’ That would not have been acceptable. – Babyface
I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It’s not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio. – Babyface
The first song I wrote was called ‘Here I Go Falling In Love’ I wrote it in the sixth grade. – Babyface
Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it’s popular in that way. – Babyface
Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you’re in love, and then you find out that you’re not because you’re not really hurting. But when it’s real love, then it’s gonna hurt. It’s supposed to hurt because it’s real. – Babyface
I was always falling in love at a very young age – kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it. – Babyface
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself. – Babyface
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels. – Babyface
Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other. – Babyface
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it’s a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there’s something they have that makes them different and commercial. – Babyface
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele – you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music – it’s clear in her writing that that’s where it comes from. – Babyface
