Jay Kay Quotes

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

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.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

I feel like Turbo helped me grow. It's the way we just lock in. His mind is set to where he'll start making beats to my flow and my sound. He's not an engineer, but he knows how to record.

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

I'm very proud of the album I made with Adrenaline Mob, and I think that there was really a great chemistry there; it was a great band.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

Mark Crew, the only producer we've ever worked with, has been joining us on tour as often as possible.

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.

I wish that I will get to work with Gopi Sundar again and again.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and me.

I only want to write a song with the people who want to write a song with me.

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as a producer. He's extremely talented. He wasn't able to get nine people together on the same page and, to me, that's the most important thing in making a Slipknot record.

A live album is a no-brainer.