Lee Ranaldo Quotes

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

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

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

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

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

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

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

Whenever I work on a song, my focus is on the listeners who follow my type of music.

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was crazy.

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.