Dinah Jane Quotes

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

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'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear.

When I'm in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.

I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

You're always thinking about making new music.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

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

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