Jim James Quotes

We're always in the studio pretty much, either at home or on the road, trying to come up with new ideas and stuff.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

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

I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

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

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Making music is fantastic.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.