Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

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

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've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

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

Penn and I want to write a record together.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

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

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

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.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

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

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

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