Quotes About Process

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song.

To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.

We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.

I never really work on just one CD - I'm recording, recording.

The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers.

Our recordings, you feel that it's been, not labored, but you feel that it's been constructed in a way where sometimes it's hard for us to create the feeling that this was done in a room.

'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

Making records should be fun.

I love making records. That's my favorite part of the whole process. And I love playing live, but certainly getting the music on a disc that's going to live forever and be there forever, just every little detail drives me crazy.

I find making records by myself incredibly boring.

For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.

I can't stand making records.

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.

With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.

A lot of the off-ice is actually spent sort of as a recovery process. Because the closer we get to a competition, the more and more you do on-ice. So if you're already on the ice three to four hours, you get enough cardio doing your run-throughs. But I sometimes do the elliptical or bike.

What I really love is modern political history. I love the research process, whether it's digging through old newspaper stories, artifacts from election campaigns or TV stories and being able to recreate moments in history that - when you look back at them now - you can get to that question of how did we get here.