Anoushka Shankar Quotes

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

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.

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.

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

I view making records as a journey.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

With my first album it was a little bit like I was practicing.

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

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 work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

I made a conscious decision when I was recording 'Acoustic Soul' to - and this is one of my mantras - follow the music and let the chips fall where they may.

How do we make a record that's true to the vibe of the band but still maintain the pace of moving forward and doing something fresh?

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.