Megan Nicole Quotes

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

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

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

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.

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

I am an inventor of music.

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

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band. That's kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

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.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.