Domino Kirke Quotes

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

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.

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

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

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 have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

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

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

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.

My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

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.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

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

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

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.

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

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

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.