Ben Hopkins Quotes

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

After Wings I did a lot of recording rather than live work. I even went into a kind of semi-retirement to places like Spain at one point.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

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.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.

We love to make records, and we love to tour.

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

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

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

There's so much more that I want to do. Of course it's great what has happened so far: Ultra, Coachella, EDC. But still, production-wise and show-wise, I'd love to play a show at Madison Square Garden. Stuff like that is beyond my imagination.