Ani DiFranco Quotes

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I view making records as a journey.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I'm constantly trying to grow as a musician, so when I listen to different things, I'm like, 'That'd be cool to do something like that,' and I try to keep myself open-minded.

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I'm always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can't always turn the drum machine on and right away there's a hot track. Sometimes you luck out. But it can take a lot of time between thinking about the artist, listening to music for inspiration or going to clubs.