Ted Dwane Quotes

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.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

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!

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I've always wanted to make a record.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

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.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

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.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

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