Mike Patton Quotes

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

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

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

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

I always created things, layered things on top of each other. That hasn't changed at all. With this first album, it was basically a celebration of that process of inventing and building sounds.

I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.

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

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

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

I love the magic of the studio.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

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.

Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

I write in the studio.

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?'

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.