Luis Fonsi Quotes

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

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.

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

It's very important when you in the studio to be with a confident creative.

Whenever I go into the studio, I'm like, 'Guys, we're probably not going to get an uptempo out of this!'

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

When I record in a studio. I know that on Tuesday at 3 o'clock I've got to go be creative.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important thing.