John Rzeznik Quotes

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

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

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

I could make records at home in a vacuum, but that is not the situation. I'm just taking it one phase at a time.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

I got to record at Capital Records, which was especially awesome. You see all those big singers like Ariana Grande, Beyonce: they're all recording at Capital. It was really cool to be there every single day and just hang out.

A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

'Drama' was put together quickly; there were a lot of intense, 16-hour days. Despite the pressure, it was a lot of fun, and the end result was an album I'm very proud of.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

I never liked making albums.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.