Keith Urban Quotes

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.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

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 tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.

You're always thinking about making new music.

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

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

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

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

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

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

We're always recording music, writing songs.