Apparat Quotes

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

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

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

I write in the studio.

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

A good artist has less time than ideas.