Sondre Lerche Quotes

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I like to make great albums.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.

Making records is hard work.

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

I never complete a song until I'm actually going to make a record.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.