Quotes About Inspiration

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

When I went to Gabriel Roth's studio, I showed him I was good with my hands and started working as a handyman in his studio. I asked him for a chance, and he gave me a song to sing with Sharon Jones.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.

That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

I mean for me, I can't really say I differentiate 'cause when I go into the studio to make music, I just make music. Sometimes, it just ends up with me, and sometimes it doesn't.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

I love music and hopefully I'll be able to do something with it - I just have to find time to get into the studio and record a few songs.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Every musician knows your studio is like - it's a bubble for you. It's a personal space. This is where I work, where I create.

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

I have my own studio down in Miami.