St. Vincent Quotes

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

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

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song.

With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the beats and I would be doing my thing writing and then we would both come together and say 'OK, you add this to it and I'll add that to it.'

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better, but still pretty boring.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.