Bibi Bourelly Quotes

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

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

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.

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

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.