Ed O'Brien Quotes

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

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.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

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

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

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.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.

Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

I learned that I can't be as indulgent as I'd like to be when I record.

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

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

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.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.