Julian Casablancas Quotes

I write new lyrics as I'm traveling and I like to record in the place where I had the original idea. Sometimes I rerecord when I get back to Barcelona because I have more-power studio there.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'

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

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

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

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.