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 thos…

- Rodney Jerkins

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 i…

- Rodney Jerkins

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

- Rodney Jerkins

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to ha…

- Rodney Jerkins

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 t…

- Rodney Jerkins

I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-in…

- Rodney Jerkins

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

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…

- Rodney Jerkins

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the pe…

- Rodney Jerkins