Will Oldham Quotes

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give another artist one of my songs. At the end of the day, it still represents me.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses.

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.