Jewel Quotes

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

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

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.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

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.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

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

Make your own music. It can be done.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.