Passenger Quotes

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

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 write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.