Dave Haywood Quotes

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed into something that worked in the context of a song that I might have been working on.

I wouldn't exclude writing another song in German, but I don't want to translate songs anymore. We used to sit down and literally translate every song word for word - it was very technical, and the songs would lose so much along the way.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make a beat to it or something.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

That's the funny thing - if there was a year and half or two years of us being a band like every other band and then getting signed, we would probably have made 'Pretty. Odd.' as our first album instead.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

Sometimes, I record rough patches of tunes and take them to directors. They choose to retain my voice. Personally, I don't like my voice, and never want to record.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

I Hope' is the fourth song that I'd ever written in Nashville. I didn't know that it was as special as it was.

My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.