MTV: Beyoncé, you produced and wrote almost every single track on the album. Why did you decide to do that?
Beyoncé: It wasn't decided for me to write and produce the whole album. I only wanted to do like three songs.
Kelly: But she can't help herself. She just writes hits.
Beyoncé: Thank you, Kelly. I wrote and produced "Independent Women [Part 1]" and "Jumpin', Jumpin'." Then I did "Survivor" and "Bootylicious" and the label loved it. [Same with] "Nasty Girl," "Emotions," "Happy Face," and "Apple Pie a la Mode." The label kept saying, "Do another song, do another song, do another song." It wasn't planned. It wasn't something like I said, "OK, I'm going to take charge."
Kelly: A great thing is Beyoncé is a writer and a producer. She will open up the doors to younger writers and producers that are females.
MTV: Still, as the group's leader, you must face a lot of pressure. Is the song "Happy Face" an attempt to explain what you go through every day?
Beyoncé: You read something [in the press], you hear something crazy and you get sad and depressed. I was the type of child always that if someone didn't like me, it killed me. My whole thing was to wonder why and to fix it. When someone makes up something, it really hurts, and I'm very sensitive. When I read crazy stuff that's why I went through a depression [after the lineup] changes in the group. There's nothing you can do to fix it unless you go around talking about it, and if it's in the past and you don't want to bring it up, you're put in a weird situation. One day I woke up and it was a beautiful day outside, and I was like, "You know, I can feel God. I'm happy and I'm blessed. All of us are blessed."
MTV: The Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb said he likes your cover of "Emotion."
Beyoncé: Whoa, that's amazing.
Kelly: You're always scared to do cover songs 'cause the artists, they're legends. The Bee Gees are legends and we just wanted to do it right so if he says it's cool with him, then yay!
MTV: What made you choose, of all songs, to cover that one?
Beyoncé: Our manager, Mathew Knowles, told us we should do it. We always feel scared about doing cover songs, 'cause if they're not as good, then you shouldn't even waste your time. We didn't know if we could do it, so instead of trying to compete, we did it different and added our Destiny's Child flavor to it. Vocally, it's the strongest song on our album. It features everybody you can really hear all our voices. All of us are very thankful to the Bee Gees for writing that [beautiful] song.
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