Jonathan Groff Quotes

I definitely want to put out and album, kind of like a Kelly Clarkson vibe: a soulful voice with a pop rock background. I think it's something that I've always loved and always loved to perform. So that's the kind of album that I'd like to put out.

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

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

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

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

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

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

'The Alesha Show' was done with production crew Xenomania, and this time, I've worked with a lot of upcoming new producers.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

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

I want to do a song with Rihanna - we need to make that work.

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 tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

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.

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.

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

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