Nina Nesbitt Quotes

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

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.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

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.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

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

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.