Brian Fallon Quotes

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

Penn and I want to write a record together.

When I did my solo album, I put on a song that I'd planned for Toto that never made an album constructed from a great drum track with Jeff and a bass track with Mike and the guys loved it.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

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

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about how he writes his ideas. I don't do this with a lot of artist, but he would give me a treatment that he wants to do, and I'll go off that; then I'll give him feedback and pitch him my ideas.

I've been working with Thundercat forever.

I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.

We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.

Having some decent musicians around you only expands what you can do production-wise, but I make rap - I can't really see myself doing much else.

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

Here's the way Static-X has always worked: I write all the songs by myself - totally and completely by myself - I give demos to the other guys, and then they add their parts to it, and then we argue about stuff and compromise and it turns out being Static-X.

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

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.