Ed O'Brien Quotes

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

I don't know, samples are just like unlimited ideas, you know? Sometimes a lot of people sample one song. A lot of it is also really just up to the artist and their creativity to see where it goes and what they want to do.

That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

Here's the thing: My hobby is to DJ. I just love music, so I can hear the beginning of a beat, the beginning of a melody, and think of the words, think of the name of the song, think of the hook, and just go there.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

I want recording to be fun.

I love doing clean singing, which is one of the main things that drives me back to Kamelot all the time.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

I started making music when I was like 14.

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on one half of one song or something.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

I've always been in love with film and music.

I have my own studio that I sing in.

DSP is not only a music director for many of my films, but he is also a very dear friend.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

I write all of my music.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.