Quotes About Process

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

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

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

I can't just go into the studio with one idea and be all in on that, 100 percent. It takes me a while to arrive at something that feels like it's finished.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.

I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.