Kim Deal Quotes

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

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

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

My first album was completed in three months.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and music playing.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.

When you do an album, you don't get to test an album live.

I have always been a fan of the Guillemots. Fyfe Dangerfield, the lead singer, has recently produced a debut solo album called 'Fly Yellow Moon'; he has the most amazing voice ever.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band. That's kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.