Floor Jansen Quotes

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

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

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.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

My first album was completed in three months.

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

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

'The Alesha Show' was done with production crew Xenomania, and this time, I've worked with a lot of upcoming new producers.

I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.

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 just a musician and a record producer.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.