Tech N9ne Quotes

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

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

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

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.

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.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

My first album was completed in three months.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.