John Deacon Quotes

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

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but also played live a couple of times - that could've gone on 'At Dawn', but we always knew we wanted to make a record that was more quote-unquote 'rock n' roll.'

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back and do a pop album. It needs its own length of time.

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

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for 'Cornerstone'... they would have been on that record.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.