Rodney Jerkins Quotes

#1. When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?'

Brandy Norwood

#2. But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Miley Cyrus

#3. Beyonce knows exactly what she wants, what she needs in her projects, where she wants to go. She's creating her own lane. There's really no one out there who can compete with her. She's in her own world.

Rodney Jerkins

#4. Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

Brock Clarke

#5. You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination.

Debasish Mridha

#6. To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Karl Kraus

#7. I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

John Eaton

#8. 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.

Rodney Jerkins

#9. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Atom Egoyan

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

Rodney Jerkins

#12. 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.

Rodney Jerkins

#13. 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.

Rodney Jerkins

#14. I am always learning, always discovering.

Isamu Noguchi

#15. I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Maya Angelou

#16. All I'm saying is that your happiness is in your hands and those of your nearest and dearest. And if you think I'm going to show up two decades or so down the line to collect your soul in my moldy old pocketbook, you'd better think again. The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things.

Stephen King

#17. Love and hope can conquer hate

Barack Obama

#18. Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

Rodney Jerkins

#19. I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl Delisha [Thomas] and Makeba [Riddick]. I brought basically five writers to work on different ideas. You either make the cut or you don't.

Rodney Jerkins

#20. Sometimes when I am writing, I feel as though I were not reliving the events I describe here, but rather living them. That there is no distance at all, and that I do not know how my story will end. It is an extraordinary sensation, since, of course, I know only too well how it will all end.

Anita Shreve

#21. Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylor