Warren Zevon Quotes

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.

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 started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

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.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.

I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.

I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs.

We have this song called 'Radio,' and I wrote that song when we needed one more song for a record. So I went back into the other room and wrote it in 20 minutes.

I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.

I'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.