Rozonda Thomas Quotes

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

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'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'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Make good art.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.