Thundercat Quotes

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on traveling, keep on doing shows, and hopefully making better albums. That's always my goal.

I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

I don't intend to stop making music.

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.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.