Art Alexakis Quotes

'Pump' was my first song.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

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

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.