Borns Quotes

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

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.

My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.

I think that, whatever happens, I'm just happy I've written those songs and I've made an album. That's really big for me, and I'm proud of that.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.