Curt Smith Quotes

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

My first album was completed in three months.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

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

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.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

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

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.