Feist Quotes

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

The room is the most important thing about recording.

I did voice work for many years before I started having success as an actress. It was mostly radio and television voiceover work, but I know my way around the studio. I know how to use the cappuccino machines and the headphones.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

Having my own studio at home is a dream, as I have a totally sound-proof room I can escape to when I need to write, and I have an impeccable room to record in.