Flume Quotes

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.