Nathaniel Rateliff Quotes

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

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

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

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.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

You're always thinking about making new music.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

Making records should be fun.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

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

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

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.

I like to make great albums.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.