Quotes About Artistry

There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.

I'm a studio rat.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.

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

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.

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

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

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.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

On the low, I've been in Kanye's studio, No Name, out in L.A.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It's just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there's always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that's happening around you.

Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.

I live in the studio and I'm inspired.

I'm in the studio every other night. I live there. I sleep there.