Elizabeth Fraser Quotes

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

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

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

My best capacity is to edit. If anything, I am a specialist at editing: my usual approach is to record a song very long. In the beginning just jam, jam on and on. Then break the song and play with it.

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

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

'I Remember' was produced before the vocal. It's just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.

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

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.