Jack Antonoff Quotes

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Albums take a lot out of you.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

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 got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

I could make records at home in a vacuum, but that is not the situation. I'm just taking it one phase at a time.

I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.

It doesn't matter how many records you've made; there's always a new experience you can get with a new producer.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

Making records is hard work.

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.