Santigold Quotes

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know?

If I get an iTunes check, I take the money out and say, 'OK, with this money I'mma go shoot me this many videos, with this money I'm going to do this amount of studio sessions.'

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

I could make records at home in a vacuum, but that is not the situation. I'm just taking it one phase at a time.

We had a nightmare on our first album, and went through two producers. I decided, on the second album, to take the money that we were supposed to use for pre-production, and we went into a studio and cut the album with no producer. We finished the whole thing without telling the record company.

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.

I learned a lot while working on 'Live From the Underground.'

My goal is to make music and be a part of cool projects.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

The first record we made in three days. We literally stayed up for three days making the first album. It was crazy, crazy, crazy for us to do that. We couldn't believe anyone would give us a record deal. I look back on that record fondly but with just the slightest bit of a cringe.

Money is a resource for me and it is needed to make music.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me.

I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.