Brett Eldredge Quotes

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

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.

When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

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.

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

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

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a crazy amount of writing.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.