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

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

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

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

- Rodney Jerkins

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