Adam Rich Quotes

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.

Here's the way Static-X has always worked: I write all the songs by myself - totally and completely by myself - I give demos to the other guys, and then they add their parts to it, and then we argue about stuff and compromise and it turns out being Static-X.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.