Luis Fonsi Quotes

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Making records should be fun.

My first album was completed in three months.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'

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

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

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.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

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

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

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

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I like to make great albums.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.