R. Kelly Quotes

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

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.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

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.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

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

It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.

You're always thinking about making new music.

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

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

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.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.