Eminem Quotes

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

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.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

I'm always working on new music.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

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

Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

Yeah, I could get an internet page and maybe get a thousand downloads of new songs but it's a lot of work. I'm 57 now, I really feel like I've got the T-shirt. I just like performing. It's instant. I go off, I do the show, it's over. I like that.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

You're always thinking about making new music.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

Making records is hard work.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

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.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.