Chris Cornell Quotes

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

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.

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

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.

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

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

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

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

I have only so many songs to choose from when I'm deciding on the album. So I learned that I'm a little slow as far as dishing out music, but I learned to be patient with myself and not rush anything.

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.