Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I like to make great albums.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'

I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.

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

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

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.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Making records should be fun.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.