Duncan Sheik Quotes

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

I make movies based on gut.

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.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.