Britt Daniel Quotes

I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

People that know me know I take stuff personally.

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.