Sandra Bernhard Quotes

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

Very often the music comes first.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.

I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

What I did was go into the studio and make music that I love. Make music that when you hear it, it feels good. Whether it was urban inspired, dance inspired, HipHop inspired or it just feels good period.

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.