Kurt Vile Quotes

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

I write my music.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

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

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

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

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

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.

The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash 'em, and then the next time I go in, I'll make like six beats - six legit, nice beats. I'm really particular with how it needs to sound.

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.