Phil Collen Quotes

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

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

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

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.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

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.

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.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I'm always eager to make new music.

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.

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.

Making records should be fun.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

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 love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I like to make great albums.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

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

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.