Chris Martin Quotes

I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

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

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

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've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

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've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I like to make great albums.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

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

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Albums take a lot out of you.