Bibi Bourelly Quotes

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

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 thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

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.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.