Kate Bush Quotes

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.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

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.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

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.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

With 'Defenders,' we had some very barebones ideas, but the bulk of it came together very quickly over in Ibiza. The main thing I like about that record, looking back on it now, is the change in the texture of the production from 'Screaming For Vengeance.'

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.

Making records is hard work.

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

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.