Quotes About Dedication

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

When we're recording, I always dress up.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career is kind of how I want to create my career. He's very involved with his recording and production company and also worked on some really great projects.

There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just driven by fame.

I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

I've always loved music and loved recording.

I'm always working and recording. It's just what makes me happy.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

I have been recording every single one of my shows since 1994. Every single joke I've ever done is on a hard drive. I can tell you when I wrote every joke I wrote. I can tell you the first time I said it, when I made it different, when I made it better.

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.