Mark Ronson - Page 3

KW: Do all those things go together—smart, funny, English?
MR: I don’t know. She said Dido’s the soundtrack to death. I think Dido’s a really nice person, but that’s funny. If she insulted me in that way, I would laugh. Maybe it’s just easier to take coming out of a pretty mouth…

KW: Women can say anything they fucking want.
MR: It’s refreshing, so I started to turn up the honesty in these English interviews I’ve been doing. I said something about Joss Stone and I saw it back in print, and I look like such a dick. Whether I think her liner notes are ridiculous or not, it’s not really my place to say it.

KW: I apologize for putting it in print this way, but when I saw Joss Stone’s first video it was very much inspiration for me to make something that looked nothing like it. [Laughs.]
MR: Oh God, I made this girl’s life worse. Again.

KW: I’m not trying to bash Joss Stone. Sometimes artists need management, a little direction.
MR: On my first record [“Ooh Wee”], Sylvia Rhone was like, “We’re going to make a video in a club and you’re going to be DJing, going 'wiggy-wiggy,' and then we’ll have Ghostface and Nate Dogg and it’ll be cool.”

KW: The Ghostface video didn’t capture what I think of Mark Ronson.
MR: No, it was a cheesy video, and I just went along, like, “You guys know better than me!” And that was completely wrong.