Curt Smith Quotes

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

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.

I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

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

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

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

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

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.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

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