Regina Spektor Quotes

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

The only thing that's changed for me is that I've figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.

I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

Because Led Zeppelin weren't having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record, it was a body of work for an album. So you could get the shift and the movement forwards as opposed to having to be rooted back to a single that might have been done a year ago.

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

There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

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.

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

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

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

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

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

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.

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.

Making records is hard work.

When I made 'Feed tha Streets,' those were the only 17 songs I had made, period. There was no cutting songs out or adding other songs in.

When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys. I gave myself permission to do that. I set out to get people who sang with me who could make those harmonies.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.