Brandon Flowers Quotes

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

Music is such a big part of my life.

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

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.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

Music is really driving my whole life.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.