Jose James Quotes

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.

Of course, I go into the studio with all the words written down.

I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing, sometimes it's writing, recording, and mixing. It all depends on what is necessary that day.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

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 can't freestyle or else I'll just start saying anything, so I'll write the song first and then record. I'll rap to the producer and he'll make the beat off my rap.

I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'

I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.

When you write and make music, there's a tendency to save stuff... to be cagey, to be savvy.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.