Steven Price Quotes

Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.

I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a studio and the tracks, and I'll call you when the doctor is done.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how it should be. It's usually just me multi-tracking which is better than coercing someone into doing my idea.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

Making records is hard work.

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.