Adrianne Lenker Quotes

I write my music.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

The way Beyonce works, the song is a jigsaw piece and then she will piece various elements.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.

If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Music is a living art.